Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Sainthood
During our sojourn in this world, we should learn from the saints now in heaven, how to love God. The pure and perfect love of God they enjoy there, consists in uniting themselves perfectly to his will. It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God’s will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
— Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
John Vianney (1786-1859), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Sainthood, Struggle (with Sin)
And even more, since the time of Adam, you will not find a saint who has not been tempted — some in one way, some in another — and the greatest saints are those who have been tempted the most. If Our Lord was tempted, it was in order to show us that we must be also. It follows, therefore, that we must expect temptation.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Sainthood
The older saints get, the younger their hearts become. Do not let your heart grow old with the passing of time. Love with a love which daily grows ever more intense, ever more new, ever more pure—that is, with the love which God pours into your heart.
–Francois-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuân (1928-2002)
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Sainthood, Spiritual (life)
Some of the saints excelled in one virtue, some in another, and although all have saved their souls, they have done so in very different ways, there being as many different kinds of sanctity as there are saints.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Sainthood, Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
“What do you want to want to be, anyway?” “I don’t know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic.” “What you should say,” –he told me– “what you should say is that you want to be a saint.”
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Sainthood
Make up your mind to become a saint.
–Saint Mary Mazzarello (1837-1881)
