340 quotes by saints for you to enjoy

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

Needs Nation Simply Need

I am the herald of the Great King. Francis of Assisi

Great King Am

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly. Joan of Arc

You Made King Enter City Paris Marvel Truce True Over Days Duke End Quickly Burgundy Turn Fifteen Should

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. Pope John Paul II

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. Pope John Paul II

Today Time History World Christ Soil First Become Preaching Sets Distant Once Bishop Gifted Through Foot Fair Gospel First Time Rome Land Pagan English Vineyard Portion Beloved

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. Pope John Paul II

Music Song Sweet Tooth Sin Polish Sweet Tooth

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also. Saint Ambrose

Man Heart Also His Where Treasure

Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show. Saint Ambrose

Faith Time Thoughts You Soul World Ways Must Follow Spirit Take Outward Him Lord His Same Refuge Same Time Hold After Us Body Your Show Even Let Us Fast Tread Present Here Kept

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. Saint Ambrose

Religion Mind Evil Nothing Shackles Which Conscience Save

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy. Saint Ambrose

Mind Own Ought Our Weak Both Wrong Check Clearly Clergy Another Souls Motions Duties Fulfilled Fortitude Even Keep Injury Right Disregard Receiving Christians Third

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. Saint Augustine

You Experience Words Must Through Concepts Printed Go Experiences Here

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. Saint Augustine

Cause Punishment Martyr Makes

There is no possible source of evil except good. Saint Augustine

Good Evil Possible Except Source

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. Saint Augustine

Hell Inquisitive He

He who labours, prays. Saint Augustine

He Prays Labours Who

God is best known in not knowing him. Saint Augustine

God Best Not Knowing Knowing Him Known

Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.' Saint Basil

Journey You Speak Fear Word Long Despise Our Unable Out More Unreasonable Long Journey Through Absolutely Because Fish Command Perpetuation Than Listen May Reason Who Actions Lest Even Creator Species Utter Resisting Set

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall. Saint Basil

Art God Time Gift Paradise Fall Before Creation Living Relief Would Immune Case Delights Also Were Labor Disease Just Require Toil Farmer Medical Need

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant. Saint Basil

Light Fall Repentance Others Neglect Virtues Slight Faults Strive Rather Remain Attain Most Make Although Greater Repair Quick Commit May Grievous Lesser Large Many Even Large Number Number

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