Quotes by Saints

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. Mother Teresa
Work Love God Respect Try Christ Danger Possible Come Devotion Beautifully Always Sake May Just Where Why
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. Pope John Paul II
Justice Attained Cannot Social Create Social Justice Violence
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II
Religion Science Purify Superstition Absolutes Idolatry False Error
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. Saint Augustine
You Believe Seek Understand May
Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end. Saint Ignatius
Life Love God Better Free Reflect Other Our Our Lord Ourselves Temporal Thus Come Know Without Lord Hand End Often Which Sent Realize Us Created Brevity Help Illness Prepare Things Setbacks
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. Saint Patrick
Heart Understanding Opened Lord Sins Should Recall
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. St. Jerome
War Gone Our Seventy Battlefield Over Like Dead Friends Survive Going Being Dying Engaged Amongst
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. Pope John Paul II
Life Great Family Selfish People Independence Become Society Danger Pleasure Lies Fact Comfort Idols Close Hearts Family Life Any Midst Whose
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. Saint Augustine
Good Confession Evil First Beginning Good Works Works
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Saint Augustine
Wisdom Habit Soon Becomes Necessity Resisted
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. Saint Augustine
Beautiful Me Wise Sayings Never Come Unto Read Very Labor Heavy Either Them Plato
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. Saint Ignatius
Love Christ Nothing Difficult Too Our Our Lord Those Lord Lord Jesus Lord Jesus Christ Done Who Jesus Jesus Christ
May God protect me from gloomy saints. Saint Teresa of Avila
God Me Protect Gloomy Saints May
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs. Francis of Assisi
You Mother Sister Our Earth Varied Through Coloured Mother Earth Lord Praised Governs Sustains Fruits Us Producing Who Herbs Flowers
Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong. Francis of Assisi
Beautiful You Strong Light Fire Brother Through He Robust Lord Praised Whom Playful Night
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. Pope John Paul II
Family Parents Become Others Way Member Both Maintain Joyful Children Much Requires Special Each Servant
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Saint Augustine
Great You First Wish Think Humility Must Lofty Fabric About Structure Construct Vast Higher Begin Being Then Your Foundation Deeper Foundations Desire
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. Saint Augustine
Man Opportunity Passion Wife Evil Adultery Living Guilty Would Some Could He Like Obvious Another Caught Than Act Less Reason
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. Saint Basil
Man Rain Brainy Drive Hunger Head Abundance Knows His Falls Curses Many Away Brings
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. Saint Ignatius
Yourself Own Others Rather Imperfections Contemplating Occupy Than Your
I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian. Saint Ignatius
Wish Christian Merely Also
Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies. Saint Patrick
Me Heart Men Seen Faithful Honour Promised Lies Hath Never He Felt Which Who Sufficient
I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. Saint Patrick
Me Made Before All Things Knew Were His Child Little Poor Little Child Who Even Creator Things
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Saint Teresa of Avila
Good Experience Gone Astray Something Something Good Thus Reach Very Acquire Useful
They talk like angels but they live like men. St. Jerome
Men Live Angels Like Talk
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins. Francis of Assisi
Son Father Made Blessed Glorious Own Victim Gave Our Willed All Things Born Cross Through Sacrificial He Altar Himself Were His Blood Sins Offer Done Us Should Who Whom Things
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