Venerate the martyrs…
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
To be a saint…
To be a saint, neither intellectual culture nor great exterior activity is a requisite; it suffices that we live profoundly by God.
–Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877–1964)
If you suffer much…
If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Becoming a saint…
Believe me, don’t wait until tomorrow to begin becoming a saint.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Saints always help sinners…
As a mother who has an unruly son does not hate him or turn away from him but adorns him with love, and everything she does, she does for his consolation; so do the saints always cover, adorn and help the sinner, so that with time he will correct himself, and not harm anyone else, and in doing so they themselves greatly advance towards the love of Christ.
–Saint Dorotheus of Gaza (Sixth Century)
Be a saint…
Jacob did not cease to be a saint because he had to attend to his flocks.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
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