Saint Quotes

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

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.

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Haste is of the Devil.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Why do you not practice what you preach.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.