Quotes by Saint

"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."

Saint Sequoyah, Italian Saint

Beauty, Christ

"He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights."

Saint Sequoyah, Italian Saint

Peace, Men, Company, Heaven

"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."

Saint Teresa, Spanish Saint

Prayer, Tears

"One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman."

Edith Stein, German Saint

Employment, Profession, Woman

"I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many."

Saint Patrick, Irish Saint

Identity, Eyes

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

Saint Teresa, Spanish Saint

Friendship, God, Being, Nothing

5

"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."

Saint Teresa, Spanish Saint

Love, Soul

"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."

Saint Teresa, Spanish Saint

Peace, People, Actions, Ignorance

"We cannot both preach and administer financial matters."

Saint Stephen, Palestinian Saint

Finance, Financial

"You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God."

Saint Stephen, Palestinian Saint

Trust, God, Compassion, Desire

2

"My longing for truth was a single prayer."

Edith Stein, German Saint

Truth, Longing, Prayer

"Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone."

Edith Stein, German Saint

God, Order, Vocation

1

"Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'."

Edith Stein, German Saint

Soul, Church, Living, Prayer

"As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love."

Edith Stein, German Saint

Love, Men, God, Soul

"In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will."

Edith Stein, German Saint

God, Memory, Order, Spirit

"On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love."

Edith Stein, German Saint

Love, God, End, Question

"The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church."

Edith Stein, German Saint

God, Heart, Church, Devotion

"The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are."

Edith Stein, German Saint

Nation, Needs

"If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him."

Edith Stein, German Saint

Want,

"Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me."

Saint Patrick, Irish Saint

Christian, Christ

"The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins."

Saint Patrick, Irish Saint

Heart, Understanding

1

"That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken."

Saint Patrick, Irish Saint

God, Words

"No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God."

Saint Patrick, Irish Saint

God, Truth, Thought, Ignorance

"If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me."

Saint Patrick, Irish Saint

Life, God, Worth

"Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall."

Saint Patrick, Irish Saint

Compassion, Deep, Lies

"If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me."

Saint Patrick, Irish Saint

God, May

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Improvement, Rest

4

"Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Friendship, War, Being, Dying, Friends

3

"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Friendship,

3

"They talk like angels but they live like men."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Man, Men, Angels, Talk

3

"The scars of others should teach us caution."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Experience, Caution

2

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Friendship,

4

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Heart, Eyes, Mind, Secrets

3

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Marriage, Night, Sleep

3

"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Love, Affection

5

"Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Life, Daughter, Heart, First

5

"Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Work, Devil, May

3

"Haste is of the Devil."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Devil, Haste

6

"Why do you not practice what you preach."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Practice,

2

"Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Devil, May

3

"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Peace, Soul, Earth, Heaven

3

"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Action, Name

3

"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Action, Law, Maxim, Will

4

"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Friendship, Friend, Difficulty

3

"A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Thought, Thoughts

5

"Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Beauty,

2

"Virginity can be lost by a thought."

St. Jerome, Croatian Saint

Thought, Virginity

"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."

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"He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights."

​

"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."

​

"One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman."

​

"I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many."

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"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

5

"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."

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"Anyone who truly loves God travels securely."

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"Don't let your sins turn into bad habits."

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"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."

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"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."

​

"We cannot both preach and administer financial matters."

​

"You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God."

2

"My longing for truth was a single prayer."

​

"Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone."

1

"Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'."

​

"As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love."

​

"In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will."

​

"On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love."

​

"The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church."

​

"The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are."

​

"If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him."

​

"Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me."

​

"The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins."

1

"That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken."

​

"No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God."

​

"If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me."

​

"Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall."

​

"If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me."

​

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."

4

"Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield."

3

"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."

3

"They talk like angels but they live like men."

3

"The scars of others should teach us caution."

2

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

4

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."

3

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night."

3

"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."

5

"Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life."

5

"Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed."