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“I want eternity. I was born for greater things.” 

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St. Stanislaus

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“Nothing is far from God.”

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St. Monica

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“Mary’s maternity is the model of all motherhood.”

“If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.”

“Love is an end already, since God is love.”

“Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.”

“God is there in these moments of rest and can give us in a single instant exactly what we need. Then the rest of the day can take its course, under the same effort and strain, perhaps, but in peace. And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him. Then you will be able to rest in Him — really rest — and start the next day as a new life.”

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St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

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“None of us is alone in this world. Each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.”

“Today, in adoring the Sacred Heart, let us pray fervently for peace. First of all for peace in our hearts, but also for peace in our families, in our nation and in all the world. Heart of Jesus, our peace and reconciliation, have mercy on us!”

“There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already born for us, and does not now bear with us.”

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”

“I plead with you – never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”

“Christ is the center of the universe and of human history…”

“Darkness can only be scattered by light. Hatred can only be conquered by love.”

“Be not afraid.”

“Grant, O Lord of life,…when the moment of our definitive ‘passage’ comes, that we may face it with serenity, without regret for what we shall leave behind. For in meeting you, after having sought you for so long, we shall find once more every authentic good which we have known here on earth, in the company of all those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith and hope….Amen.”

“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.”

“Jesus is living next to you, in the brothers and sisters with whom you share your daily existence.”

“Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”

“Confession is an act of honesty and courage an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.”

“It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you.”

“Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good.”

“Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.”

“Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman’s ‘part’. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman ‘discovers herself through a sincere gift of self.”

“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”

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St. John Paul II

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“Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.”

“The priesthood is the love of the Heart of Jesus.”

“He is the one who has loved us so much; why shouldn’t we love Him in return?”

“You do not need many words when you pray. We believe on faith that the good and gracious God is there in the tabernacle; we open our souls to Him; and feel happy that He allows us to come before Him; this is the best way to pray.”

“Ardent prayer addressed to God: this is man’s greatest happiness on earth!”

“A soul adorned with the virtue of chastity cannot help loving others; for it has discovered the source and font of love—God.”

“The works of penance abound in such delights and joys that once they have been tasted, nothing will ever again root them out of the soul…. Only the first steps are difficult for those who eagerly choose this path.”

“There is no better way to experience the good God than to find him in the perfect sacrifice of the Mass.”

“My children, it is in loving the cross that we find true peace, not running from it.” 

“The soul should move toward prayer the way a fish should move toward water; they are both a purely natural state.” 

“If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.”

“Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire, it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.”

“Here is a rule for everyday life: Do not do anything which you cannot offer to God.”

“My little children, reflect on these words: the Christian’s treasure is not on earth but in heaven. Our thoughts, then, ought to be directed to where out treasure is. This is the glorious duty of man: to pray and to love.”

“We do not have to talk very much in order to pray well. We know that God is there in his Holy Tabernacle; let us open our hearts to him; let us rejoice in His Presence: This is the best prayer.”

“I tell you that you have less to suffer in following the cross than in serving the world and its pleasures.”

“We are each of us like a small mirror in which God searches for His reflection.”

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St. John Vianney

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“Prayer is the foundation of the spiritual edifice. Prayer is all powerful.”

“Don’t let your life be sterile. Be useful. Blaze a trail. Shine forth with the light of your faith… and light up all the ways of the earth with the fire of Christ that you carry in your heart.”

“God calls us through what happens during our day: through the suffering and happiness of the people we live with, through the human interests of our colleagues and the things that make up our family life.”

-St. Josemaria Escriva

-St. Josemaria Escriva

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“Be good, love the Lord, pray for those who do not know Him. What a great grace it is to know God!”

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St. Josephine Bakhita

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“Always forward, never back.”

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St. Junipero Serra

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“Jesus, I love you.”

“Who will teach me what is most pleasing to God, that I may do it?”

“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.”

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St. Kateri Tekakwitha

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“Peacefully do at each moment what at that moment ought to be done. If we do what each moment requires, we will eventually complete God’s plan, whatever it is. We can trust God to take care of the master plan when we take care of the details.”

“The patient and humble endurance of the cross whatever nature it may be is the highest work we have to do.”

“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.”

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St. Katharine Drexel

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