Quotes and Inspiration
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
“The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.”
http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/tag/st-elizabeth-ann-seton/
“We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that He gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty.”
http://www.mothersetonschool.com/our-patron-saint.html
“Oh my God, forgive what I have been, correct what I am, and direct what I shall be.”
https://setonshrine.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/EAS-Spiral-Quotes.pdf
St. John Neumann
“Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; we are not here, that we may go to bed at night, and get up in the morning, toil for our bread, eat and drink, laugh and joke, sin when we have a mind, and reform when we are tired of sinning, rear a family and die. God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, . . . for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us. He has an end for each of us; we are all equal in His sight, and we are placed in our different ranks and stations, not to get what we can out of them for ourselves, but to labor in them for Him. As Christ has His work, we too have ours; as He rejoiced to do His work, we must rejoice in ours also.”
http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2013/01/daily-catholic-quote-from-st-john-neumann-bishop/
“To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.”
http://www.aquinasandmore.com/catholic-articles/41-famous-quotes-from-cardinal-newman/article/335
“Passion of Christ, strengthen me.”
http://redemptorists.net/neumann/
How much do I love Thee, O my Jesus!
I wish to love Thee with my whole heart, yet I do not love Thee enough.
I have but one desire: that of being near Thee in the Blessed Sacrament.
Thou art the sweet Bridegroom of my soul.
My Jesus, my love, my all, gladly would I endure
hunger, thirst, heat, and cold
to remain always with Thee in the Blessed Sacrament.
http://vultus.stblogs.org/2008/01/saint-john-neumann-and-the-qua.html
St. Josephine Bakhita
“Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, ‘Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?’ I felt a great desire to see Him, to know Him and to pay Him homage.”
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20001001_giuseppina-bakhita_en.html
“O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh how many souls would be won!”
St. Katherine Drexel
“If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing.”
https://quotingcatholic.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/press-forward-and-fear-nothing/
“It is a lesson we all need – to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.”
http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2012/06/daily-catholic-quote-from-st-katharine-drexel-2/
St. Patrick
“The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.”
http://www.preach-the-gospel.com/St-Patrick-Quotes.htm
“If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.”
St. Bernadette
“I’m happier with my crucifix on my bed of pain than a queen on her throne.”
http://gracefilled.org/news?month=2016-8
“I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them.”
http://www.prayerrequest.eu/st_bernadette
O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love You and to suffer for sinners. O Jesus, I would rather die a thousand deaths than be unfaithful to You!
http://www.prayerrequest.eu/st_bernadette
“Let the crucifix be not only in my eyes and on my breast, but in my heart. O Jesus! Release all my affections and draw them upwards. Let my crucified heart sink forever into Thine and bury itself in the mysterious wound made by the entry of the lance.”
St. Gianna
Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.
http://www.worldmeeting2015.org/spirituality-center/ss-family/st-gianna/
“If one were to consider how much Jesus has suffered, one would not commit the smallest sin”.
https://saintgianna.org/reflectionosst.htm
“Lord, keep Your grace in my heart. Live in me so that Your grace be mine. Make it that I may bear every day some flowers and new fruit”.
https://saintgianna.org/reflectionosst.htm
“O Mary, into your maternal hands I place myself and I abandon myself completely, sure of obtaining whatever I ask of you. I trust in you because you are the sweet Mother, I confide in you because you are the Mother of Jesus. In this trust I place myself, sure of being heard in everything; with this trust in my heart I greet you “my Mother, my trust”, I devote myself entirely to you, begging you to remember that I am yours, that I belong to you; keep me and defend me, O sweet Mary, and in every instant of my life, present me to your Son, Jesus”.
Our Lady of Fatima
“I have come to ask you to come here for six months on the 13th day of the month, at this same hour. Later I shall say who I am and what I desire. And I shall return here yet a seventh time.”
http://www.catholic.org.tw/fatimads/apparitions.htm
“Say the Rosary every day, to bring peace to the world and the end of the war.”
http://www.catholic.org.tw/fatimads/apparitions.htm
“I will never forsake you. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.”
http://www.catholic.org.tw/fatimads/apparitions.htm
“Offer up everything within your power as a sacrifice to the Lord in an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended; and as supplication for the conversion of sinners. Thus invoke peace upon your country. I am her Guardian Angel, the Angel of Portugal. Above all, accept and bear with submission the sufferings that the Lord may send you.”
St. Rita of Cascia
“God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.”
http://www.piercedhearts.org/theology_heart/wisdom_heart/thoughts_of_st_teresa_avila.htm
St. Aloysius Gonzaga
“O Holy Mary! My Mother; into thy blessed trust and special custody, and into the bosom of thy mercy, I this day, and every day, and in the hour of my death, commend my soul and body. To thee I commit all my anxieties and sorrows, my life and the end of my life, that by thy most holy intercession, and by thy merits, all my actions may be directed and governed by thy will and that of thy Son.”
http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/inspiration6.htm
“He who wishes to love God does not truly love Him if he has not an ardent and constant desire to suffer for His sake.”
http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2011/07/daily-quote-from-st-aloysius-gonzaga-2/
St. Thomas the Apostle
“Except I shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe” – John 20:25
“My Lord and my God!” – John 20:28
St. John Vianney
“Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.”
http://www.xavier.edu/jesuitresource/online-resources/Quotes-About-Prayer.cfm
“We are each of us like a small mirror in which God searches for His reflection.”
http://www.archindy.org/criterion/local/2015/11-06/guest.html
“How good is our God! When we can no longer come to Him, He comes to us.”
“I tell you that you have less to suffer in following the cross than in serving the world and its pleasures.”
St. Clare of Assisi
“We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God’s compassionate love for others.”
https://theprayinglife.com/tag/st-clare-of-assisi/
“Go forth without fear, Christian soul, for you have a good guide for your journey. Go forth without fear, for He that created you has sanctified you, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother.”
https://www.ewtn.com/saintsHoly/saints/C/stclareofassisi.asp
St. Monica
“Nothing is far from God.”
https://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/MONICA.htm
“Bury my body wherever you will; let not care of it cause you any concern. One thing only I ask you, that you remember me at the altar of the Lord wherever you may be.”
http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2014/08/daily-catholic-quote-from-st-monica-2/
“One thing only there was for which I desired to linger in this life: to see you a Catholic Christian before I died. And my God has granted this to me more lavishly than I could have hoped, letting me see even you spurning earthly happiness to be his servant.”
http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2013/08/daily-catholic-quote-from-st-monica/
St. Augustine
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
http://www.st-augustinechurch.com/liturgy/
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
http://theunboundedspirit.com/saint-augustine-quotes/
“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.”
http://theunboundedspirit.com/saint-augustine-quotes/
“He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.”
St. Padre Pio
“Pray, hope, and don’t worry.”
“Pray, pray to the Lord with me, because the whole world needs prayer. And every day, when your heart especially feels the loneliness of life, pray. Pray to the Lord, because even God needs our prayers.”
“My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.”
http://www.piercedhearts.org/theology_heart/counsels_of_%20heart/counsels_st_pio.htm
“Jesus is with you even when you don’t feel His presence. He is never so close to you as He is during your spiritual battles. He is always there, close to you, encouraging you to fight your battle courageously.”
https://catholicyearoffaith.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/15-amazing-quotes-from-saint-padre-pio/
“The greater your sufferings, the greater God’s love for you.”
https://catholicyearoffaith.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/15-amazing-quotes-from-saint-padre-pio/
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.”
“True Charity consists in bearing with all the defects of our neighbor, in not being surprised at his failings, and in being edified by his least virtues; Charity must not remain shut up in the depths of the heart, for no man lighteth a candle and putteth it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.”
http://www.littleflower.org/therese/words-of-st-therese/love-for-others/
Pope Saint John Paul II
“You are the men and women of tomorrow. The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with him in the building of the civilization of love.”
– Saint John Paul II, World Youth Day, 2002
http://www.jpthegreat.org/about-us/our-patron/
“Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God. Jesus Christ is “the only Son from the Father…full of grace and truth.”
http://www.usccb.org/about/leadership/holy-see/pope-john-paul-ii-quotes.cfm
“Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ!”
“Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion. She listens to conscience and not to power, and in this way she defends the poor and the downtrodden.”
St. Jude
“But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; they said to you, ‘In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.’ It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And convince some, who doubt; save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh” (St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, Patron of Lost Causes; Letter of St. Jude 1:17-23).
http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2013/10/daily-catholic-quote-from-st-jude/
St. Andrew
“We have found the Messiah.” – Saint Andrew the Apostle to Saint Peter (John 1: 41)
St. Nicholas
“Children, I beseech you to correct your hearts and thoughts, so that you may be pleasing to God. Consider that although we may reckon ourselves to be righteous and frequently succeed in deceiving men, we can conceal nothing from God. Let us therefore strive to preserve the holiness of our souls and to guard the purity of our bodies with all fervor.”
http://www.xavier.edu/jesuitresource/online-resources/St-Nicholas-Quotes.cfm
St. Lucy
“Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit.”
http://www.wordofgodeveryday.com/site.php?use=browse&category=30&p=8
http://www.4catholiceducators.com/saints/saint-lucy.htm
“No one’s body is polluted so as to endanger the soul if it has not pleased the mind. If you were to lift my hand to your idol and so make me offer against my will, I would still be guiltless in the sight of the true God, who judges according to the will and knows all things. If now, against my will, you cause me to be polluted, a twofold purity will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen to me.”