saint Quotes

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Mother Theresa

• 163
• Love

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Francis of Assisi

• 34
• inspirational

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Theresa

• 29
• Love

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Theresa

• 29
• Love

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

• 23
• inspirational

Kind words may be short... but their echoes are endless.

Mother Theresa

• 19
• Words

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Theresa

• 19
• Poverty

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Theresa

• 15
• God

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Mother Theresa

• 14
• Advice

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Theresa

• 13
• Charity

Preach the gospel everywhere you go, and, if necessary, use words.

Francis of Assisi

• 12
• Evangelism

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Francis of Assisi

• 11
• Advice

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Mother Theresa

• 10
• Service

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today

Francis of Assisi

• 8
• inspirational

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

Edith Stein

• 7
• dear

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Mother Theresa

• 7
• Prayer

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Mother Theresa

• 7
• Evangelism

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Theresa

• 6
• Actions

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa of Avila

• 5
• acts

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Mother Theresa

• 5
• Wealth

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

Mother Theresa

• 5
• Greatness

So many signatures for such a small heart.

Mother Theresa

• 5
• Bureaucracy

Pain is never permanent.

Saint Teresa of Avila

• 4
• pain

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Francis of Assisi

• 4
• christian

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Mother Theresa

• 4
• Career

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Saint Bernard

• 3
• books

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Mother Theresa

• 3
• Sympathy

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Theresa

• 3
• Kindness

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Theresa

• 3
• Help

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Francis of Assisi

• 3
• Christianity

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Saint Teresa of Avila

• 2
• bad

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Saint Teresa of Avila

• 2
• being

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Saint Teresa of Avila

• 2
• anyone

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

Saint Stephen

• 2
• all-powerful

He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.

Saint Gregory

• 2
• deeds

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Saint Basil

• 2
• nature

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Francis of Assisi

• 2
• family

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Theresa

• 2
• Peace

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

Saint Ignatius

• 1
• appears

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Edith Stein

• 1
• nation

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

Saint Patrick

• 1
• despise

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Saint Teresa of Avila

• 1
• beside

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Saint Teresa of Avila

• 1
• religion

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Saint Teresa of Avila

• 1
• courage

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi

• 1
• love

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi

• 1
• giving

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi

• 1
• pardoned

In some causes silence is dangerous.

Saint Ambrose

• 1
• causes

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Theresa

• 1
• Suffering

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Theresa

• 1
• Love