Top 715 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Saints

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

War is a defeat for humanity.

Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

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

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.

Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.

Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.

No one heals himself by wounding another.

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.

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

We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.

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

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Mt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion?

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

Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For perfection is not to be found in them; it is acquired through them. It is useless, therefore, to boast of our fasting, vigils, poverty, and reading of Scripture when we have not achieved the love of God and our fellow men. Whoever has achieved love has God within himself and his intellect is always with God.

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

Jesus Christ, in His infinite love, has become what we are, in order that He may make us entirely what He is.

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to grasp the significance of 'all is His'. and you will immediately feel free from all burdens. What will be the result of your surrender to Him? None will seem alien, all will be your very own Self.

Who gives you the day will give you also the things necessary for the day.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.

He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is.

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

When we appeal to the throne of grace we do so through Mary, honoring God by honoring His Mother, imitating Him by exalting her, touching the most responsive chord in the sacred heart of Christ with the sweet name of Mary.

Teach the mouth to say what you have in your heart.

I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.

Above all, always see Jesus in every person, and consequently treat each one not only as an equal and as a brother or sister, but also with great humility, respect and selfless generosity.

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces... never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's the beauty of being alive... We can always start all over again. Enjoy God's amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always.

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives.

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.

The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.

'We were created for eternal life by our Creator, we are called to it by the word of God, and we are renewed by holy Baptism. And Christ the Son of God came into the world for this, that He should call us and take us there, and He is the one thing needful. For this reason your very first endeavor and care should be to receive it. Without it everything is as nothing, though you have the whole world under you.'

Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.

Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.

I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.

Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.

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.

Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.