Quotes on Saint

The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more . .. I know Christ, the poor crucified One.

God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of any passion, would be filled with envy at his lot.

Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.

There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will