Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Benedict Joseph Labre

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French saint Benedict Joseph Labre.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Benedict Joseph Labre was a French mendicant, Franciscan tertiary, and Catholic saint. Labre was from a well to do family near Arras, France. After attempting a monastic lifestyle, he opted instead for the life of a pilgrim. He traveled to most of the major shrines of Europe, subsisting by begging. Labre is patron saint of the homeless.

French - Saint | March 25, 1748 - April 16, 1783

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I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.

Benedict Joseph Labre

'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

Benedict Joseph Labre

He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.

Benedict Joseph Labre

God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

Benedict Joseph Labre

The poor should live by alms.

Benedict Joseph Labre

Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

Benedict Joseph Labre

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

Benedict Joseph Labre

We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

Benedict Joseph Labre