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November 29, 2015Quotes Standard

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FAITH-

Faith is characteristic not of the proud but of the humble.
-Saint Augustine

The devil has never succeeded in tempting me against faith. It even seems to me that the less I can comprehend the truths of faith, the more readily I give them my assent.
– Saint Teresa of Avila

Show by your deeds that you believe; by a virtuous life a Christian must prove that he has faith.
-Saint Bernard

He who acknowledges God with his tongue but denies Him in deed, dedicates his tongue to the Lord and his soul to the devil.
-Saint Bernard

The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

-Saint Irenaeus

HOPE-

The good that I hope for is so great that every suffering becomes for me a pleasure.
-Saint Francis of Assisi

I rejoice and am glad, for my sentence on judgment day depends on Jesus my Brother and on Mary my mother.
-Saint Bonaventure

O blessed confidence! O safe refuge! The Mother of God is also my Mother; with what security I can hope for eternal happiness, for that happiness depends on the decision of a good Brother and on a compassionate Mother.
-Saint Anselm

HUMILITY-

Humble yourself and God will descent to unite Himself with you; but if you are proud He will depart from you.
-Saint Augustine

Humility is the clearest sign of the elect.
-Saint Gregory

Nothing is so edifying as amiable meekness.
-Saint Francis de Sales

Gentleness, love, and humility have a wonderful effect in winning the hearts of men and in causing them to do willingly what is opposed to human nature.
-Saint Vincent de Paul

I’m like a little pencil in God’s hand. That’s all. He does the thinking.  He does the writing.  The pencil has nothing to do it. The pencil has only to be allowed to be used.
Mother Teresa

MERCY-

Thou hast sinned O Christian, but dost thou desire forgiveness? Fear not, for  God’s desire to grant it is greater than  your desire to receive it.
-Saint John Chrysostom

Why should you fear, O sinner, as long as you detest your sins? How could He reject the repentant sinner, since He came down from Heaven to seek that sinner?
-Saint Thomas of Villanova

The efforts of Hell at this moment are very great, but by the merits of His suffering our Savior takes from them all their power.
-Saint Eleazar

BLESSED MOTHER-

Hasten to Mary, for I say it without hesitation, the Son will certainly hear the Mother. She is the ladder of safety for poor sinners. She is my greatest assurance; she is the only ground of my hope.
-Saint Bernard

Happy is he who loves thy holy name, O Mary! Thy name is a glorious and wonderful name; they who invoke thy powerful name at the hour of death have nothing to fear from the assaults of hell.
-Saint Bonaventure

LOVE OF GOD-

With what love would  we be inflamed, did we but see the flames of love that burn in the heart of Christ!
-Saint Francis de Sales

Those who withdraw into the little heaven of their soul, where He who created them is enthroned, can be certain that in a brief space of time they will have advanced far on the road to perfection.
-Saint Teresa of Avila

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
-Mother Teresa

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa

I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
-Saint Thomas More

I am not my own; I have given myself to Jesus. He must be my only love. The state of helpless poverty that may befall me if I do not marry does not frighten me. All I need is a little food and a few pieces of clothing. With the work of my hands I shall always earn what is necessary and what is left over I’ll give to my relatives and to the poor. If I should become sick and unable to work, then I shall be like the Lord on the cross. He will have mercy on me and help me, I am sure.
-Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

LOVE OF NEIGHBOR-

If you wish to know how much a person loves his God, see how much he loves his neighbor.
-Saint Catherine of Genoa

In our neighbor we must direct our attention to the good and not to the evil.
-Saint Jane de Chantal

If, in the course of his life, a man never spoke ill of his fellow man, I would consider him a saint.
-Saint Mary Magdalen de Pazzi

Say nothing of an absent brother that you would not wish to say in his presence.
-Saint Mary Magdalen de Pazzi

An ounce of charity is better than tons of right.
-Saint Robert Bellarmine

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
-Mother Teresa

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
-Mother Teresa

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts,  there can be no more hurt, only  more love.
-Mother Teresa

TRUTH-

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.”
― Saint Irenaeus of Lyons

One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. She is the door of life.
-Saint Irenaeus

PRAYER AND MEDITATION-

Nothing proves our love for Jesus Christ better than the zeal we  have to pray for our brethren.
-Saint John Chrysostom

If you are occupied during the whole meditation in fighting distractions and temptations you will have made a good meditation.  The Lord looks to the good intention we have and the effort we make, and these He rewards.
-Saint Francis de Sales

PERSEVERANCE-

There are no times so bad that a good man cannot live in them.
-Saint Thomas More

SUFFERING-

If we only knew what a treasure we possess in hidden sufferings, we would gladly accept them as the greatest benefits.
-Saint Vincent de Paul

Learn to suffer for the love of God, and don’t be anxious for everyone to find it out.
-Saint Teresa of Avila

POVERTY AND DETACHMENT-

The less we have here, the greater will be our joy in heaven.
-Saint Teresa of Avila

Oh what happiness voluntary poverty bestows. The poor man possesses  nothing and therefore has nothing to fear; he is always cheerful for he has an abundance, since he knows how to draw spiritual gain out of everything that is burdensome.
-Saint Bernard

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa

CHASTITY-

Chastity makes man very similar to God Himself, who is a pure spirit.
– Saint Basil

O holy purity, thou are the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, the life of angels and the crown of saints.
– Saint Athanasius

The first arrows that strike chaste souls and frequently cause deadly wounds, pierce through the eyes.
-Saint Bernard

TEMPTATION-

When a thief is trying to break in the door, it is  a sign he is not yet in the house.
-Saint Francis de Sales

From the look proceeds the thought and from the thought the desire.
-Saint Augustine

He who does not wish the enemy to force his way into the fortress must keep the gates closed.
-Saint Francis de Sales

Downcast eyes direct the heart to Heaven.
-Saint Bernard

SALVATION-

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
-Saint Irenaeus