Quotes by Saints

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine

Love You Soul Love Is Beauty Since Within Grows

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. Saint Teresa of Avila

Love Soul Yourself Melt Make Continually Accustomed Many Acts

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. Mother Teresa

Love Relationship Gives Does Intense Intense Love Just Measure

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Saint Augustine

You Yourself Believe Like Gospel Gospels Reject

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. Saint Augustine

Time Good You Accidents Pay Those Circumstances Brought Attention Since Closer Cannot Place Special Who Connection

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Pope John Paul II

People Song Despair Our Abandon Easter Hallelujah

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. Saint Patrick

Me Christ Before Beneath Beside Above Within Saint Patrick's Day Behind

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa

Love Love Is Remove Difficult Hunger More Than Bread Much

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. Saint Augustine

Will Our He Without Us Created Help Who Consent Save

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love. Saint Teresa of Avila

Love Prayer Thoughts Words Sickness Will To Love Act Even Needed

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. Pope John Paul II

The greatest evil is physical pain. Saint Augustine

Evil Pain Physical Physical Pain Greatest Medical

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend. Saint Teresa of Avila

True Friend Man Christ Leader Abandon All Things Never He Noble True His Friend Dwells Endure Us Helps Things Jesus Strengthens

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. Pope John Paul II

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve. Francis of Assisi

Charity World Reward Will Men Lose Carry Recompense Give Alms Lord Material Material Things Leave Behind Them Deserve Things Receive

The friendship that can cease has never been real. St. Jerome

Friendship Never Real Been Cease

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. St. Jerome

Friendship True Friendship Ought Never Conceal True Thinks

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. Mother Teresa

Work Happy Miracle

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. Saint Augustine

Me Law Unjust No Law Seems

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. Mother Teresa

Nobody Greatest Diseases Anybody

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. Pope John Paul II

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. Mother Teresa

Disguise Them Each Each One Jesus