Famous quotes by Saints

Saints

Discover voices of saints recognized across cultures and traditions, whose lives of service, courage, and compassion continue to speak to the challenges of every age. These words invite reflection, offering guidance for moments of doubt, encouragement for acts of kindness, and clarity in the pursuit of justice and peace. Whether you seek spiritual insight, historical perspective, or a spark of everyday motivation, let these selections open a quiet space for contemplation and growth, and remind us of our shared capacity for humility, hope, and steadfast love.

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

Saint Jerome, Saint

Saint Jerome

"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Haste is of the Devil"

Saint Jerome, Saint

Saint Jerome

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

Saint Teresa of Avila

"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Beauty, when unadorned, is adorned the most"

Saint Jerome, Saint

Saint Jerome

"Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues, hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist, there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor"

Saint Ignatius, Saint

"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Jerome, Saint

Saint Jerome

"Pain is never permanent"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

Saint Teresa of Avila

"Love is the beauty of the soul"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Patience is the companion of wisdom"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love"

Francis of Assisi, Saint

Francis of Assisi

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men"

Francis of Assisi, Saint

Francis of Assisi

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

Edith Stein, Saint

"My longing for truth was a single prayer"

Edith Stein, Saint

"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, Saint

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

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