Category: Wisdom of the Saints

We must teach more by example than by word
– St Mary MacKillop

I doo not lend. I give. Hasn’t the good God been the first to give to me?
– St John Vianney

Prayer, good reading, the frequentation of the sacraments, with the proper dispositions, and particularly the flight of idleness – these are, believe me, the means of sanctify yourself.
– St Paul of the Cross

Every day, my love for the mountains grows more and more. If my studies permitted, I’d spend whole days in the mountains contemplating the Creator’s greatness in that pure air.
– Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati

Love the poor tenderly, regarding them as your masters and yourselves as their servants.
– St John of God

All battles are first one or lost, in the mind.
– St Joan of Arc

It is a loving act to show sadness when our dear ones are torn from us, but it is a holy act to be joyful through hope and trust in the promises of God.
– St Paulinus of Nolla

Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.
– St Gregory of Nazianzen

Most Holy Sacred Heart of Jesus, help my heart to persevere in all that is holy.
– St. Rita of Cascia

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.
– St. Angela Merici