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

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

Saint Augustine, Saint

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

Saint Ignatius, Saint

"Haste is of the Devil"

Saint Jerome, Saint

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

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet"

Saint Augustine, Saint

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

Saint Augustine, Saint

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

Saint Augustine, Saint

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

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts"

Saint Jerome, Saint

Small: Saint Jerome

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

Saint Jerome, Saint

Small: Saint Jerome

"Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most"

Saint Jerome, Saint

Small: Saint Jerome

"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

Small: Francis of Assisi

"Patience is the companion of wisdom"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"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

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

Saint Augustine, Saint

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

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

"Pain is never permanent"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

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

Saint Augustine, Saint

"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too"

Saint Teresa of Avila, 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

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

Saint Augustine, Saint

"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

"He that is jealous is not in love"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

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

Edith Stein, 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

"Punishment is justice for the unjust"

Saint Augustine, Saint

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