Quotes by Saints

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Francis of Assisi

You Impossible Possible Doing Then Suddenly Start Necessary

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Francis of Assisi

Love Me Peace Hatred Thy Instrument Make Lord Sow Where

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa

Loneliness Poverty Feeling Unwanted Most Terrible Being

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. Francis of Assisi

Inspirational Drive Single Enough Sunbeam Shadows Many Away

Peace begins with a smile. Mother Teresa

Smile Peace Begins

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa

God Nature Silence Noise Moon Grass Stars Trees Sun Find See Able Restlessness Touch He Souls How Friend Move Cannot Found Grows Flowers Need

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. Saint Augustine

Pride Men Changed Humility Angels Devils Makes

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil

Love Friendship Wisdom Kindness Good Man Fruit Plants Lost Tree Never He Known Courtesy His Deed Who Deeds Good Deed

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa

Peace Other Because Forgotten Each Belong

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine

Faith You Reward Believe See

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. Mother Teresa

Sometimes Poverty Naked Unwanted Own Think Our Unloved Hungry Kind Must Only Remedy Greatest Being Homeless Homes Start

The future starts today, not tomorrow. Pope John Paul II

Today Future Tomorrow Starts

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa

Love Strength Prayer You Joy Net Catch Souls Which

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Mother Teresa

Love Fruit Love Is Every Reach Within Hand Times Season

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa

Love You Hurt Hurts Paradox More Only Until Found

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

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. St. Jerome

Love Love Is Affection Purchased Price

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Francis of Assisi

Wisdom Ignorance Charity Fear Neither Nor Where

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. Francis of Assisi

Preach Preaching Our Unless Walking Anywhere Use

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. Pope John Paul II

Freedom Ought Consists Having Like Doing Right

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. Saint Augustine

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Mother Teresa

Today Feeling Unwanted Rather Disease Tuberculosis Being Biggest Leprosy

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Saint Augustine

Waiting Drinking Poison Other Like Person Die Resentment