I always wanted to become a saint…Instead of being discouraged, I told myself that God would not make me wish for something impossible…I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight. It is your arms, Jesus, which are the elevator to carry me to heaven. So there is no need for me to grow up. In fact, just the opposite: I must become less and less.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Pure love… knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love – love, and always love.
–Saint Faustina (1905-1938)
Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.
–Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Have a love that goes with special preference towards the humble and the poor, remembering that it is directly to Jesus that the smallest act of kindness and love is addressed when it is done to the least among his brothers and sisters. Welcome them with respect and love, be all the more considerate towards them, for they are the suffering members of Jesus’ body.
–Blessed Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916)
The example of the saints is proposed to every one, so that the great actions shown us may encourage us to undertake smaller things.
–Blessed Louis de Granada (1505-1588)
