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“The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.”

Firsts Ends Saint Gods Will Propose Daily Work

Author:Elizabeth Ann Seton

“The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.”

Knows Should Happens Limits Praise Strive Saint Indifference Our Time Poison

Author:Maximilian Kolbe

“Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone. I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil.”

Knows Heart Desire Jesus Christ Lord My Heart Devil Jesus Christ All Things Overcoming Saint Worthy Sheep

Author:Agatha of Sicily

“Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.”

God Eye Christian Christianity Worry Catholic Leaving Saint Doing You Doings

Author:Jane Frances de Chantal

“Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.”

Form Mother Virtue Roots Charity Saint

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.”

Needs Giving Poor Saint

Author:Saint Augustine

“What do you possess if you possess not God?”

Ifs Saint

Author:Saint Augustine

“This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.”

Ifs May Moments Desire Saint

Author:Saint Augustine

“He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.”

Lost Can Do All Things Saint Trust In God

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.”

World Saint

Author:John Vianney

“Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.”

Christian Form Spirit Desire Faith Jesus Wish Objects Saint Affection Devotion Chiefs Affected Reign Disposition Preoccupation Following Jesus God Within Us Catholic Saint Christian Service

Author:John Eudes

“Preach always. Use words if necessary.”

Ifs Use Saint

Author:Francis of Assisi

“The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.”

Praying Catholic Method Saint Rosary Catholic Saint Blessed Mother Powerful Weapons Holy Rosary Praying The Rosary

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.”

Giving Wells Said Christian Jesus Prayer Holy Glory Saint Mary Rosary Blessed Mother Holy Rosary Praying The Rosary

Author:Louis de Montfort

“If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you will receive a never-fading crown of glory'”

Ifs Sin Glory Saint Spite Gravity Crowns Fading Rosary Blessed Mother Holy Rosary Praying The Rosary

Book:The Secret of the Rosary

Source: The Secret of the Rosary

“The Rosary is THE weapon.”

Christian Weapons Saint Rosary

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!”

Ifs Thinking Knows Answers Saint Contrary Pleasant Mary Rude Hail Converses Rosary Courteous Holy Rosary Praying The Rosary Hail Mary

Author:Bernardino of Siena

“Recite your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with perseverance.”

Humility Perseverance Saint Rosary Praying The Rosary

Book:The Secret of the Rosary

Source: The Secret of the Rosary

“The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God...and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary.”

Ifs Heart Home Beautiful Mother Wish Prayer Rich Grace Saint Reign Rosary Blessed Mother Holy Rosary Praying The Rosary

Author:Pope Pius X

“Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.”

Christian Devil Saint Formal Heretic Rosary Holy Rosary Praying The Rosary

Author:Louis de Montfort

“Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.”

“What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.”

Difficult Impossible Saint Contrary

Author:Ambrose

“Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.”

Term Prayer Secret Saint Friendship With God

Book:The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

“Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.”

Ifs Kind Soul Imagine All Things Saint Teeth Beast Claws Wild Beasts

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.”

Talking Saint

Author:John of the Cross

“Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power.”

Doe Perseverance Saint

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.”

Should Fighting Jesus Christ Enemy Holy Crosses Overcoming Mark Bounds Saint Captains Battlefields Holy Cross

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice, and a third time, God still looks for him, "so that he may be converted and live."”

Ifs Men Firsts Looks May Stills Sin Thirds Saint Committed Desert Deserted Third Time

Author:Caesarius of Arles

“Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.”

People Children Prayer Walks Teaching Saint Genuine Teaching Children

Author:Margaret Mary Alacoque

“There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.”

Knows Men Three Lord Saint

Book:St. Bernard's Sermons on the Nativity

Source: St. Bernard's Sermons on the Nativity

“The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.”

World Heaven Return Saint Abundance Our World Bores

Author:Saint Augustine

“Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.”

“Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.”

Giving Doe Force Christ Saint Yield

Book:The Way of Perfection

Source: The Way of Perfection

“The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.”

Want Feels May Soul Desire Perfect Taken Increase Charity Saint Diminish

Author:Saint Augustine

“Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.”

Speak Realizing Prayer Ought Angel Saint Behave Endeavor

Author:Teresa of Avila

“You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.”

Giving Light Praying Saint Flames Heat Bonfire Giving Light

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom.”

Soul Water Objects Bottom Saint Impression Vessel Particles Stirring

Author:Elizabeth Ann Seton

“You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!”

Should Ends Turns Praise Saint

Author:Francis of Assisi

“You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return.”

Ifs Way Would Be Return Saint Ashamed Logical

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.”

Prayer Enemy Saint Our Prayers

Author:Saint Augustine

“We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us in putting together what we have heard in church.”

Should Children Home Hands Together Church Wife Heard Ought Saint Scripture Plunge

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.”

Ifs Seems Dies Christ Sweet Crosses Saint

Author:Teresa of Avila

“A Christian is not his own master, since all his time belongs to God.”

Christian Masters Saint

Author:Ignatius of Antioch

“There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.”

Ifs Mind Feelings Prayer Simple Study Danger Depends Reflection Saint Our Prayers Good Success

Author:Jane Frances de Chantal

“The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.”

Soul Care Journey Quiet Saint Shakes Drag Dirt Carts

Author:John of the Cross

“What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.”

Ifs Littles Doe Helping Easier Cost Mercy Saint Help Me Diligent God Help God Help Me

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.”

Giving Soul Self Light Father Darkness Fire Self Love Sight Give Me Blind Charity Saint Pity Ice My Soul Kindles

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.”

Knows Said Lord Know How Praying Saint Presence Of God Answers To Prayer

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.”

Men Evil Wonderful Highest Miracle Saint Providence Evil Man

Author:Severinus of Noricum

“It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.”

Heart May Forget Finals Saint Pity Judgement Sinner Mediocrity Augustine

Author:Josemaria Escriva

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