Catholic Saints Quotes

“Then, overcome by joy, I cried, 'Jesus, my love. At last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love. In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and then I will be all things.”
― St. Thérèse de Lisieux

“Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead.”
― Mother Angelica

“A saint is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly.”
― St. Bernard of Clairvaux

“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.”
― Karl Marx

“Act in such a way that all those who come in contact with you will go away joyful. Sow happiness about you because you have received much from God; give, then, generously to others. They should take leave of you with their hearts filled with joy, even if they have no more than touched the hem of your garment.”
― Maria Faustina Kowalska

“3938The bread which you do not use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes that you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the money that you keep locked away is the money of the poor; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.”
― St. Basil the Great

“Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice.”
― Pope John Paul II

“O Sacred Heart of Jesus, fountain of eternal life, Your Heart is a glowing furnace of Love. You are my refuge and my sanctuary.
O my adorable and loving Savior, consume my heart with the burning fire with which Yours is aflamed. Pour down on my soul those graces which flow from Your love. Let my heart be united with Yours. Let my will be conformed to Yours in all things. May Your Will be the rule of all my desires and actions. Amen.”
― Gertrude the Great

“Become who you are.”
― Pope John Paul II

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
― Saint Augustine

“He has told us that He is the hungry one. He is the naked one. He is the thirsty one. He is the one without a home. He is the one who is suffering. These are our treasures, she said, looking at the rows of pallets in the caravanserai. They are Jesus.”
― Mother Teresa

“The world knows that Catholics have a high standard of purity. But the world is not going to be impressed unless it is assured that Catholics keep it.”
― Ronald Knox, Captive Flames: On Selected Saints and Christian Heroes

“It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.”
― Dale Ahlquist, Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton

“It was surprisingly difficult to find prayers of thanks—the least represented of any type of prayer.”
― Marie Noël, Catholic Prayers of Thanks

“The body, in fact, and it alone is capable of making visible that which is invisible; the spiritual and the divine.”
― Pope John Paul II

“Many of the images I’ve selected for this book involve the holy angels interacting with people, such as in visions and apparitions to the saints. My purpose is to offer examples of angels as distinct and real beings which have appeared to people.”
― Marie Noël, Prayers to the Holy Angels

“Mihi mori lucrum--For me to die is a gain. To die, murdered by the haters of Jesus Christ, would be my gain. All my fervent desires have always been to die in a hospital as a poor man, or on the scaffold as a martyr, murdered by enemies because of the most holy religion that we profess and preach. I should like to seal with my blood the virtues and truths which I have preached and taught.”
― Anthony Mary Claret, The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret

“This collection features Catholic prayers to Jesus Christ the King and to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of Heaven. It also has historical Catholic prayers to God for kings and queens on earth.”
― Marie Noël, Catholic Prayers to the King & Queen of Heaven: With Prayers for Kings & Queens on Earth

“The prayers focus on preparing for Christ’s coming at Christmas, His Infancy, and the Epiphany.”
― Marie Noël, Catholic Christmas Prayers

“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”
― Saint Mother Teresa

“Suffering passes but having suffered lasts.”
― St. Bernadette

“There was definitely a cat and another animal, probably a rabbit, in the shed. Her suspicions were confirmed soon enough. Madeleine lit a candle, its light illuminating a wooden hutch where an enormous rabbit was nibbling at some freshly picked clover. In her lap, the little grey cat was all grown up; it was the same cat Madeleine had been holding on the balcony the day when one look from her teal-colored eyes had been enough to floor poor Solange. Holy pictures were pinned over the hutch: Saint Anne, the Miraculous Virgin of the Smile (who cured ten-year-old Thérèse), Saint Veronica holding her veil, and Saint Joan of Arc had all been carefully pinned in a row, looking down tenderly over the big orange rabbit who went on munching his clover. Pinned to the frame of the hutch was a piece of wax paper with the animal's name- Lazarus- written on it.
"His name's Lazarus," Madeleine whispered as she grabbed him by the ears.
Solange winced in pain.
"You have to pick them up by the ears or else you hurt them. I'll set him down on your lap."
Solange had never touched a living rabbit before. She stroked Lazarus, who right then seemed to her to be the gentlest, most charming thing to ever have walked this earth.”
― Éric Dupont, The American Fiancée

“The essence of holiness makes us live in the atmosphere of a never ending miracle. The saint requires the world in which he lives to present to a transparent face so that God's presence may pass through. This is Sharbel's miracle which perpetuates itself every day. It is untrue to say that the hermit runs away from mankind. It is more exact to say that he alone penetrates the world rather than gliding superficially over it and because of this, he has been permitted to view the foundation of all the world, the spirit. He has become God's contenance.”
― Paul Daher, Saint Charbel

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not at hand.”
― Thomas Aquinas, The "Summa Theologica" of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Treatise on the Trinity and Creation, XXVII-XLIX