Category: Wisdom of the Saints

A Christian’s treasure is not on earth. It is in heaven. Well, then! Our thoughts must go where our treasure is. Man has a fine function: to pray and to love. You pray, you love: that is man’s happiness on earth!
– St John Vianney

Let devotion accompany all your studies, and study less to make yourself learned than to become a saint. Consul God more than your books, and ask Him, with humility, to make you understand what you read.
– St Vincent Ferrer

Where there is order, there is also harmony; where there is harmony, there is also correct timing; where there is correct timing, ther is also advantage.
– St Irenaeus

The dress of the body should not discredit the good of the soul.

Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.
– St Peter of Alcntara

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
– St Jerome

Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.
– St Anthony the Great

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.
– St Clare of Assisi

We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.
– St Elizabeth Ann Seton

Regret not that which is past, and trust not to thine own righteousness.
– St Anthony of Padua