Category: Wisdom of the Saints

Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast.
– St Philip Neri

The surest, easiest, shortest way is he Eucharist.
– St Pope Pius X

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
– St Basil the Great

My children, the three acts of faith, hope, and charity contain all the happiness of man upon earth.
– St John Vianney

Don’t look for sufferings, but do not refuse them. Value them as precious marks of favor that He bestows on you.
– Bl Sebastian Valfre

Don’t look for sufferings, but do not refuse them. Value them as precious marks of favor that He bestows on you.
– Bl Sebastian Valfre

It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.
– St Edmund

In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
– St Margaret of Cortona

For in this way especially does a friend differ from a flatterer: The flatterer speaks to give pleasure, but the friend refrains from nothing, even that which causes pain.
– St Basil the Great

It is impossible to find a saint who did not take prayer and penance seriously.
– St Francis Xavier