Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Theodore Guerin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American saint Theodore Guerin.

Last updated on September 30, 2024.

Théodore Guérin, designated by the Vatican as Saint Theodora, and born Anne-Thérèse Guérin, was a French-American saint and the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, a congregation of Catholic sisters at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Pope John Paul II beatified Guérin on 25 October 1998, and Pope Benedict XVI canonized her a saint of the Catholic Church on 15 October 2006. Guérin's feast day is 3 October, although some calendars list it in the Roman Martyrology as 14 May, her day of death.

American - Saint | October 2, 1798 - May 14, 1856

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I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear.

Theodore Guerin

[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed.

Theodore Guerin

the Americans must have the Almighty dollar. Their cupidity renders them daring and indifferent to everything else. It is nothing to them to expose their lives and those of others in order to gain money. How materialistic these people are!

Theodore Guerin

Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.

Theodore Guerin

We are not called upon to do all the good possible, but only that which we can do.

Theodore Guerin

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Theodore Guerin

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