This daring ambition of aspiring to great sanctity has never left me. I don’t rely on my own merits, because I haven’t any; I put all my confidence in Him who is virtue, who is Holiness itself.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God… Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills.
–Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660)
The saints try to be saints, and not merely to appear to be saints.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
God wants all of us to be saints, and each one according to his or her state of life: the religious as religious, laypeople and laypeople, the priest as a priest, the married person as married, the merchant as a merchant, the solider as a soldier, and so on, in every other state of life.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the more they can help them by their prayers; the more they are united with God, the more effective those prayers are. This is in accordance with Divine order, which makes higher things react upon lower things, like the brightness of the sun filling the atmosphere.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your encounters with the same adversities which they had to conquer, and that breathtaking joy is theirs and your eternal reward for having endured a few years of temporal pain. Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness.
–Blessed Henry Suso (1295-1365)
