Quotes by Saints

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure. Francis of Assisi

Wise Humble Simple Pure Must Rather According Prudent Flesh

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. Pope John Paul II

Problems Men Resolve Never Arms Violence

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. Pope John Paul II

Dignity Maturity Matter Word Christ Church Duty Proof Priest Vow His Celibacy Personal Expression Keeping Inner

It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound. Saint Ambrose

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. Saint Augustine

Easier Total Perfect Abstinence Than Moderation Many

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart. Saint Bernard

God Heart Humble Confession Devil Human Heart Had He Sin Over Makes Loses Sovereignty Human Gained Who Thereby

Teach us to give and not to count the cost. Saint Ignatius

Religion Cost Give Count Us Teach

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many. Saint Patrick

Eyes Faithful Despised Most Am Least Sinner Many

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness. Francis of Assisi

Beautiful Day Great You Light Sun High Brother Give Bears Through Splendour He Most Likeness Lord Praised Sir Us Your Radiant Who Whom Creatures

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world. Francis of Assisi

World Pride Men Humility All Things Holy Things

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. Pope John Paul II

Life Love Today God Day Loyalty You Honesty Grace Words Will Before Solemn Promise Constitute Entire Entire Life Only Divine Observe Anniversary Vows Principle Want Formulate Your Help

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. Pope John Paul II

Experience Increases Adding Alienation Collectivism Rather Economic Countries Sadly Inefficiency Does Historical Lack Socialist Away Basic Necessities

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. Saint Augustine

Forgiveness Lost Saved Has-Been Remission Been Sins Being Again Found

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. Saint Augustine

Life Good Live Also Times Lives

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. Saint Augustine

Time Me Wish No-One Know Him Explain Ask Then Who

Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created. Saint Ignatius

God Man Soul Other Our Earth Way Our Lord He Reach Him Lord Praise Reverence Were His His Way End Which Created Use Help Serve Things Save

It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days. Saint Patrick

God Me Heart Grace Care Long Earnest Hunters Would Put Days Come Any Should Whom Last

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. Saint Teresa of Avila

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. Saint Teresa of Avila

Wisdom Soul Must All Things Come Where Roots Planted Things

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. Saint Teresa of Avila

God Journey Feeling Too Remains

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. Saint Teresa of Avila

Satan Fear Half Those Him Much Who

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. Saint Teresa of Avila

Needs Care Our Finds More Comforts Provided Body Defect Desires

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living. St. Jerome

Me Son Father Living Entrusted Knees Put Am Fallen Begun Former Prodigal Who Away Wasted Portion