Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God. 801St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. 802
St. Augustine
When men stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything. 803
G.K. Chesteron
When pain and suffering, humiliation and fear take us down into the deepest parts of the self, resurrection is only one thought away. 804
Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B.
I live and love in God's peculiar light. 805
Michelangelo
The love of Christ knows no limits. It never ends; it does not shrink from ugliness and filth. 806
Edith Stein
I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome. 807
St. Anthony Mary Claret
I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus. 808
St. Faustina Kowalska
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things. 809
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
God, my God, because you are mine, I lack nothing. 810
St. Gertrude the Great
My soul can see no other remedy pleasing to God than peace. 811
St. Catherine of Siena
True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues. 812
St. Therese of Liseux
Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground. 813
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
A soul arms itself by prayer for all kinds of combat. 814
St. Faustina Kowalska
O, Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there thy cheerful beams. 815
St. Augustine
The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love. 816
St. Alphonsus Liguori
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything. 817
St. Teresa of Avila
The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you. 818
St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
I knew nothing; I was nothing. For this reason, God picked me out. 819
St. Catherine LaBoure
It is my weakness that gives me all my strength. 820
St Therese of Liseux
If there be anywhere on Earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it. But in falling and rising again, we are always kept in that same precious love. 821
St. Julian of Norwich
To know whom to avoid is a great means of saving our souls. 822
St. Thomas Aquinas
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. 823
St. Francis of Assisi
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole. 824
St. Teresa of Avila
We shall never completely know ourselves if we don't strive to know God. 825
St. Teresa of Avila
For God says: Pray wholeheartedly. . . though you may feel nothing, though you may see nothing . . . for in dryness and in barrenness, in sickness and in weakness, then is your prayer most pleasing to Me. 826
St. Julian of Norwich
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you. 827
St. Jerome
Just as a mother holds her child's face in her hands to cover it with kisses, so does God hold (us). 828
St. John Vianney
Just as the surest cure for lying is to unsay a falsehood as soon as we are conscious of having told it, so the best cure for anger is to make immediate reparation in meekness; for, as the proverb says, fresh wounds are always the easiest to heal. 829
St. Francis de Sales
When we do something we dislike, let us say to God, "My God, I offer You this in honor of the moment when You died for me." 830
St. John Vianney
What is faith but a carriage to heaven? 831
St. Aelred of Rievaulx
Pray to God, "You are the Spirit, and I am only the trumpet, and without your breath I can give no sound." 832
St. Joseph of Copurtino
Be not afraid to tell Jesus that you love Him; even though it be without feeling, this is the way to oblige Him to help you, and carry you like a little child too feeble to walk. 833
St. Therese of Lisieux
Just as water extinguishes a fire, so love wipes away sin. 834
St. John of God
You can't help feeling the fascination of a soul that knows what it wants, and lives by faith. 835
Pope John XXIII
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it. 836
St Therese of Liseux
Can you expect to go to Heaven for nothing? Did not our dear Savior track the whole way to it with His Blood and tears? 837
St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton
The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy. 838
St. Bernard
Devils take great delight in fullness, and drunkeness, and bodily comfort. Fasting possesses great power and it works glorious things. To fast is to banquet with angels. 839
St. Athanasius
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, don't seek to understand so that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand. 840
St. Augustine
Intimacy with the Lord is not a matter of physical kinship; rather, it is achieved by cheerful readiness to do the will of God. 841
St. Basil the Great
If we have any natural defect, either in mind or body, let us not grieve and feel sorry for ourselves. Who can tell whether, if we had been given a larger share of ability or stronger health, or greater wealth, we would have possessed them to the destruction of our soul! 842
St. Alphonsus Liguori
We should love and feel compassion for those who unjustly oppose us, since they harm themselves and do us good, for they adorn us with crowns of everlasting glory. 843
St Anthony Mary Zaccaria
Greed will demand of you labor, danger, hardships, and troubles, and you will readily agree to its demands. And for what purpose? So you can have what will fill up your purse but empty out your peace of mind! 844
St Augustine
The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom! 845
St Francis de Sales
To suffer or to die. 846
(Motto of St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church)
I give thee thanks, Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God! 847
St. Boniface (Matyr, during torture.)
Thanks be to God! 848
St. Cyprian (On hearing his death sentence.)
I give Thee thanks, Oh Christ! 849
St. Laurence (On being struck with stones, smiling.)
I come to thee, O good Jesus! 850
St. Laurence Justinian (Being martyred.)
I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity - therefore I die in exile. 851
Pope St. Gregory VII (His last words.)
The more my body suffers for Jesus Christ, the more is my soul refreshed. 852
St. Probus (Martyr)
Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and the Holy Ghost! 853
St. Bede the Venerable (Doctor of the Church. His last words.)
Lord Jesus, preserve me. Whether we live or die, we are thine. 854
St. Esebius (While being tortured.)
Never in my whole life have I felt such joy as I do today. 855
St. Dorothy (While being tortured.)
See, this side is well roasted; turn me on the other and eat. 856
St. Laurence (To his executioner while over burning coals.)
Learn that the God of the Christians is the only God, for these hot coals seem flowers to me. 857
St. Tiburtius (While walking upon fire.)
I thank thee, my Lord Jesus, for having deemed me worthy to suffer this for love of Thee. 858
St. Dulas (While being scourged.)
I give Thee thanks, O tThou Lover of Our Souls, that Thou callest me to Thy paradise! 859
St. D0rothy (While being taken to execution.)
Credo in unum Deo. - I believe in one God. 860
St. Peter of Verona (Written by him in his own blood from the Creed, while he was dying.)
God does not give Himself to a chattering soul which, like a drone in a beehive, buzzes around but gathers no honey. A talkative soul is empty inside. It lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others. I have seen many souls in the depths of hell of hell for not having kept their silence; they told me so themselves when I asked them what was the cause of their undoing. 861
St. Faustina Kowalska
I tremble to think that I have to give an account of my tongue. ... Sometimes we kill with the tongue: we commit real murders. 862
St. Faustina Kowalska
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.... The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. 863
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
It is very useful for those who minister the Word of God to give themselves up to prayer, to read the works of authors who's names begin with "S", such as St. Augustine, St. Bernard, etc.. 864
St. Phillip Neri
When God intends to grant a man any particular virtue, it is His way to let him be tempted to the opposite vice. 865
St. Phillip Neri
