“To serve the poor is to go to God. You must see God in the faces of the poor.”
“Extend mercy toward others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?”
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St. Vincent de Paul
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“A word or smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.”
“You know well enough that our Lord does not look so much on the greatness of our actions nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.”
“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.”
“Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you – for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart…”
“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.”
“May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.”
“I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’ defects not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.”
“I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.”
“Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.”
“One must have passed through the tunnel to understand how black its darkness is.”
“It is your arms, Jesus, which are the elevator to carry me to heaven.”
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St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you.”
“As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.”
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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“Man’s salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view of all things, and at every moment of his life.”
“To love God as he ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for his sake.”
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St. Peter Claver
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“May Christ be heard in our language, may Christ be seen in our life, may he be perceived in our hearts.”
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St. Peter Damian
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“The Eucharist is the life of the people. The Eucharist gives them a center of life. All can come together without the barriers of race or language in order to celebrate the feast days of the Church. It gives them a law of life, that of charity, of which it is the source; thus it forges between them a common bond, a Christian kinship.”
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St. Peter Julian Eymard
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“Do not let a day pass without doing some good in it.”
“Nothing helps a man more than prayer.”
“We must always remember that God does everything well, although we may not see the reason of what He does.”
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St. Philip Neri
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“Pray, hope and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer. Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart.”
“Walk cheerfully and with a sincere and open heart as much as you can, and when you cannot always maintain this holy joy, at least do not lose your trust in God.”
“Do not tire yourself over things that cause anxiety and worry. Only one thing is necessary: to lift up your spirit and love God.”
“Be cheerful. Jesus will take care of everything. Let us trust in Jesus and our heavenly Mother, and everything will work out well.”
“The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrifice, and with extreme effort.”
“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. He is there to ward off the enemy’s blows so that you may not be hurt.”
“How consoling it is to know you are always under the protection of a heavenly spirit who never abandons you, not even when you are actually offending God. How delightful is this great truth to the one who believes. Who is to be feared, then, by the devout soul who is trying to love Jesus, when accompanied by such an illustrious warrior?
“Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on its boundless grief and how precious is our soul.”
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St. Pio da Pietrelcina
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“Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.”
“… nobody ever knew Christ so profoundly as she [the Blessed Mother] did, and nobody can ever be more competent as a guide and teacher of the knowledge of Christ.”
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St. Pius X
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“Love is a marvelous and heavenly thing. It never tires and never thinks that it has done enough.”
“Whoever finds God finds everything, whoever loses God loses everything.”
“Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.”
“Let prayer delight thee more than disputations, and the charity which builds up more than the knowledge which puffs up.”
“What is easier, sweeter, more pleasant, than to love goodness, beauty, and love, the fullness of which you are, O Lord, my God.”
“Know that you have been created for the glory of God and your own eternal salvation. This is your goal; this is the center of your life; this is the treasure of your heart.”
“The school of Christ is the school of charity. On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.”
“An ounce of charity is better than a hundred loads of reason.”
“Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.”
“Flee idleness…for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.”
“Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another’s defects.”
“It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.”
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St. Robert Bellarmine
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