Category: Wisdom of the Saints

As to the past let us entrust it to God’s mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment.
– St Gianna Molla

To touch the hearts of your students is the greatest miracle you can perform.
— St John Baptist de La Salle

The principal trap that the devil sets for young people is idleness. This is a fatal source of all evil. Don’t let there be any doubt in your mind that man is born to work, and when he doesn’t do so, he’s out of his element and in great danger of offending God.
– St John Bosco

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a should except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
– St Francis de Sales

Isn’t it absurd to send children out to jobs and to school, and to school all you can to prepare them for these, and yet not to ‘bring them upon in the chastening and admonition of the Lord (Eph. 6:4)?’ Discipline is needed, not eloquence; character, not cleverness; deeds, not words. These gain a man the kingdom.
– St John Chrysostom

Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.
– St Angela Merici

The best thing for us is not what we consider best, but what the Lord wants of us.
– St Josephine Bakhita

By your prayers you can bring down the rain of mercy.
– St Charbel Makhlouf

Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
– St John Henry Newman

If we love Jesus, we shall be loved in return by Him, and that is perfect happiness.
– St Rose Philippine Duchesne