340 quotes by saints for you to enjoy

Punishment is justice for the unjust. Saint Augustine

Justice Legal Unjust Punishment

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi

Love Seek Lord Loved To Love Might Much Grant

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Saint Augustine

Man Own Out Find Imperfections Perfection His Very

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. Saint Teresa of Avila

Yourself Stern Gentle

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. Saint Teresa of Avila

Love God Alone Time Best Great Prayer You Love Is Important Nothing Think Else Please Everything Intimate Mental Delight Sharing Taking Between Taking Time Know Him Opinion Frequently Important Thing Friends Than In My Opinion Which Loves To Love Us Much Means Who Thing Desire

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. Mother Teresa

The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. Saint Patrick

Enough Greater Said Lord Than

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. Mother Teresa

Work Love Mistake People Our Vocation Many Jesus

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. Saint Augustine

Grace Will Horse Rider

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Saint Teresa of Avila

Friendship God Prayer Nothing Else Terms Than Being

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Saint Augustine

Funny Me Pure Lord Help

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. Pope John Paul II

Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent. Saint Ignatius

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years. Saint Ambrose

Love God Good Youth Fear Honor Parents Humility Despise Ought Give Purity He Forbearance His Years Subject Elders Modesty Should Youthful Ornament Preserve

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. Saint Teresa of Avila

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way. St. Jerome

Good Me Will Rest Sheep Sick Back Unless Way Carries Fold Give Rising Takes Steps Feet Like Am Shepherd His Falter Very Effort Shoulders Flock

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems. Pope John Paul II

You Political Problems Illusion Field Exaggerated Temporal Through Priests Leaders Gospel Political Leaders Interest Social Us Let Us Wide Serving

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. Saint Augustine

Duty Ought Our Because Praise Doing Deserve

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. Saint Augustine

You Judge Will Lose Strangers Other One Friend Come Accept Because Hand Friend Friends Same Gain Ask Request Dispute Two

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so. Saint Teresa of Avila

Good Prayer Soul Garden Plants Soil Will Practice Setting Reckon Pleasure Out Must Abound Weeds Put Instead Majesty Look Most Make Himself Lord His Up Beginner Begun Done Decide Which Us Roots Let Us

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. St. Jerome

Long Difficulty Sought Friend Found Hardly Kept

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. Mother Teresa

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