Saint Quotes

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
To seek the highest good is to live well.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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