Saintly Quotes: Inspiring Words from the Saints (Page 3)

"Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied"

St. Jerome, Saint

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

St. Jerome, Saint

"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless"

St. Jerome, Saint

"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law"

St. Jerome, Saint

"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept"

St. Jerome, Saint

"Hear the other side"

Saint Augustine, Saint

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

Saint Augustine, Saint

"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"He that is jealous is not in love"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt"

Saint Augustine, Saint

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

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others"

Saint Augustine, Saint

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

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

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

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

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

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

"O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

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