Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Sainthood
Union with God, then, is the spiritual height God calls everyone to achieve – any one, not only religious but any one, who chooses, who wills to seek this pearl of great price, who specializes in the traffic of eternal good, who says ‘yes’ constantly to God … The imitation of Christ in the lives of saints is always possible and compatible with every state of life. The saints did but one thing – the will of God. But they did it with all their might. We have only to do the same thing; and according to the degree of intensity with which we labor shall our sanctification progress.
–Blessed Miriam Teresa (1901-1927)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Sainthood, Spiritual (life)
Divinely wise souls often infuriate the worldly-wise because they always see things from the Divine point of view. The worldly are willing to let anyone believe in God if he pleases, but only on condition that a belief in God will mean no more than belief in anything else. They will allow God, provided that God does not matter. But taking God seriously is precisely what makes the saint. As St. Teresa put it, “What is not God to me is nothing.” This passion is called snobbish, intolerant, stupid, and unwarranted intrusion; yet those who resent it deeply wish in their own hearts that they had the saint’s inner peace and happiness.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Sainthood
For it does not require much time to make us saints; it requires only much love.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Sainthood
Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.
–Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Page: Quotes, Pio (1887-1968), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Sainthood
The prayers of the Saints in heaven and of the just on earth are a perfume which never will be lost.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Sainthood, Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
No, I am not a Saint; I’ve never performed the actions of a Saint. I’m a very little soul upon whom God has bestowed graces; that’s what I am. What I say is the truth; you’ll see this in Heaven.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
