Top 55 Catholic Saint Quotes
#2. We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#3. Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.
Saint Augustine
#4. Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.
Robert Bellarmine
#5. You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
Therese Of Lisieux
#6. Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
Rose Of Lima
#7. Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.
Saint Francis De Sales
#8. I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
Saint Augustine
#9. Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.
Saint Francis De Sales
#11. The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.
Saint Augustine
#13. From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawrence, a city next to Methuen, and was taught by sisters of the Catholic order of Notre Dame de Namour. I enjoyed all my subjects there. I do not remember ever learning any science, except for mathematics.
Elias James Corey
#14. What do you want to want to be, anyway?"
"I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic."
"What you should say"
he told me
"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.
Thomas Merton
#15. Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!
Saint John Chrysostom
#16. One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."
Dave Hunt
#17. Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.
Saint John Chrysostom
#18. But in this life on earth we have not only the fear but the certainty that we shall lose it. For one day we must die. Therefore true happiness... lasting, everlasting happiness cannot be our lot on earth. Nor could it be otherwise. For everlasting happiness is only another name for God.
Louis De Wohl
#19. No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.
Cyprian
#20. Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
Saint Augustine
#21. To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.
Chris Matthews
#22. Maximilian Kolbe : (1894-1941), what an amazing life! A role model to me and to millions of people around the world. He wanted to be one of the greatest saints in the world. I want to be "A gift from God to Mankind", the meaning of my first name : Teddy.
Teddy Crispin
#24. I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.
Dominic Savio
#25. I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
Brian Dennehy
#26. Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint.
Zach Braff
#27. Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint.
Charles Duhigg
#28. We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.
Saint Basil
#30. You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.
Saint John Chrysostom
#31. A saint is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#32. God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
Saint Augustine
#36. A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.
St. Anthony The Great
#37. Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.
Saint Augustine
#38. We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.
Saint Francis De Sales
#39. If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#40. well-meaning Christians almost killed the faith eight hundred years ago
Jon M. Sweeney
#41. It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
Thomas Aquinas
#42. It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
Saint Augustine
#45. And I myself a Catholic will be,
So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee.
Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow
On us, the Poets militant below.
Abraham Cowley
#46. Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?
Saint Augustine
#47. Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things!
Peter Julian Eymard
#48. [Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change
Jon M. Sweeney
#49. Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.
Saint Augustine
#50. Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
Saint Augustine
#51. We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.
Saint John Chrysostom
#52. When Mary has struck her roots in a soul, she produces there marvels of grace, which she alone can produce, because she alone is the fruitful Virgin who never has had, and never will have, her equal in purity and in fruitfulness.
St. Louis De Montfort
#53. A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.
Pope Benedict XVI
#54. The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else.
Saint Francis De Sales
#55. It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves.
Teresa Of Avila
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