I leave you with the best phrases of the most prominent Catholic saints. The themes of these phrases revolve primarily around faith, our duty to God, the love of the omnipresent or charity, among others.
Some of the saints that you will find on this list are Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Albert the Great or John Paul II, among others.
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-Nature is the best teacher of truth. -San Ambrosio.
-Hell is full of good wills and wishes. -San Francisco de Sales.
-To the extent that something temporary is loved, the fruit of charity is lost. -Santa Clara.
-The simulation of humility is the greatest pride. -San Agustin.
-Idleness walks slowly, that's why all vices catch up with it. -San Agustin.
-Prayer is absolutely necessary for us to persevere. -Cure of Ars.
-Man cannot be separated from God, nor the politics of morality. -Santo Tomás Moro.
-Wishing to know for the sake of knowing. -San Alberto Magno.
-He is happy who keeps nothing for himself. -San Francisco de Asis.
-Love until it hurts, if it hurts it's a good sign. -Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
-Men fight, only God gives victory. -Santa Joan of Arc.
-The love of God makes everything smooth. -San Claudio la Colombière.
-Errar is human; preserving in errors is diabolical. -San Agustin.
-Prayer is for the soul, what food is for the body. - Saint Vincent of Paul.
-Always try to live in the friendship of God. -San Juan Bosco.
-Without prayer, no one can progress in divine service. -San Francisco de Asis.
-The measure of love is to love without measure. -San Agustin.
-He who asks with malicious intent does not deserve to know the truth. -San Ambrosio.
-Give what you have so that you deserve to receive what you lack. -San Agustin.
-If you don't want to suffer, don't love, but if you don't love what do you want to live for? -San Agustin.
-Work on something so that the devil always finds you busy. -St Geronimo.
-Do not seek to be great in the eyes of men, but in the eyes of God. -San Martin de Porres.
-He who, by obedience, submits to evil, is attached to rebellion against God and not to submission. -Saint Bernard.
-All the evils that burden us on earth come precisely from the fact that we do not pray or do it wrong. -San Juan María Vianney.
-When the love of God obtains the will of the soul, it produces in it an insatiable desire to work for the loved one. -Saint John Chrysostom.
-The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. -Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
-Sustain us in the hour of combat and trial, and if we fall, make us experience the joy of the sacrament of forgiveness. -Father Pio.
-The Eucharist and the Virgin are the two columns that are to support our lives. -San Juan Bosco.
-Oh Lord, you are so adorable and you have commanded me to love you? Why did you give me just one heart and it's so small? -San Felipe Neri.
-Pray as if everything depended on God. Work as if everything depends on you. -San Agustin.
-God does not hide himself from those who seek him with a sincere heart, even if they do so gropingly, in an imprecise and diffuse way. -John Paul II.
-A single Mass offered and heard in life with devotion, for one's own good, can be worth more than a thousand Masses celebrated for the same intention, after death. - San Anselmo.
-Ask our Lord for grace so that he is not deaf to his call, but prompt and diligent to fulfill his most holy will. -San Ignacio de Loyola.
-In good times and bad, we have to carry the cross of Jesus, not in front of him, but behind him, like Simon of Cyrene, to the top of Calvary. -Saint Damien.
- Therefore, persevere in your conduct and follow the example of the Lord, without hating anyone and helping each other with the goodness of the Lord. -Saint Polycarp.
-You are not holier because they praise you, nor more vile because they despise you. -Blessed Thomas of Kempis.
- The law of Christ, which is fulfilled in love, obliges us to seek the salvation of souls more than that of the body. -San Francisco de Asis.
-People are usually curious to know the lives of others and reluctant to correct their own life. -San Agustin.
-Since the heart of our Savior has no other laws than gentleness, humility and charity, we will always act guided by this soft yoke. -San Francisco de Sales.
-The true teaching that we transmit is what we live; and we are good preachers when we put what we say into practice. -San Francisco de Asis.
-The heart of God has a preferential place for the poor, so much so that even He himself became poor. -John Paul II.
-The more we work on earth, the more merits we will earn in heaven. -San Leopoldo Mandic.
-Charity is the center that unites the community with God and all its members with each other; It contributes to the union of hearts and links them indissolubly to God. -Saint Vincent of Paul.
-Courtesy is the sister of charity, which quenches hatred and fosters love. -San Francisco de Asis.
-The hearts of men love one day and the next they are indifferent. Only God does not change. -Santa Teresa de los Andes.
-Love is hard, but it is our essence. That is what elevates us above the creatures.
-You must show mercy to your neighbor always and everywhere. You cannot stop doing it, or excuse yourself, or justify yourself. -Santa Faustina Kowalska.
- Always keep your interior in silence, speaking little with creatures and much with God, suffering and working for his love. -Santa Margarita María.
-Faith refers to things that are not seen, and hope, to things that are not within reach. -Saint Thomas of Aquino.
-When you love you don't suffer, and if you suffer, you even love the same suffering. -San Agustin.
-Remember that when you leave this land, you will not be able to take anything that you have received, only what you have given. -San Francisco de Asis.
-The devil's trap will not make you fall, unless you are already biting the devil's bait. -San Ambrosio.
-In fact, I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe to understand. Well, I believe this, because if I did not believe, I would not understand. -Saint Anselm of Canterbury.
-Loving is hard, but it is our essence. That is what elevates us above the rest of the creatures. -Santa Rosa de Lima.
-Leave sadness for those who are in the world, those of us who work for God should be happy. -San Leonardo.
-True perfection consists in this: always doing the most holy will of God. - Saint Catherine of Siena.
-Love and do what you want. If you are silent, you will be silent with love; If you scream you will scream with love, if you correct you will do it with love, if you forgive, you will forgive with love. -San Agustin.
-Have great trust in God: his mercy infinitely exceeds all our miseries. -Santa Margarita María de Alacoque.
-In the afternoon they will examine you in love; learn to love as God wants to be loved and leave your condition. -San Juan de la Cruz.
-The Holy Eucharist is the perfect expression of the love of Jesus Christ for man, it is the quintessence of all the mysteries of his life. -Santa Maria Goretti.
-Whoever wants to live with dignity and fullness has no other way than to recognize the other and seek their good. -John Paul II.
-The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, great things are done and when it stops working it ceases to exist. -San Gregorio Magno.
-Before judging our neighbor, let us put him in our place and ourselves in his, and then our judgment will be righteous and charitable. -San Francisco de Sales.
-Among all the emotions, feelings and affections of the soul, love is the only one with which the creature can correspond to its creator. -San Bernardo de Claraval.
-He who has not had tribulations to endure, has not begun to be a true Christian. -San Agustin.
-He will pour out his blessings on you and will be your defender, your comforter, your redeemer and your reward in eternity. -Santa Clara.
-Those who profess to belong to Christ are distinguished by their works. -San Ignacio de Antioquia.
-The poor and the sick are the heart of God. By serving them, we serve our Lord Jesus Christ. -San Camilo de Lelis.
-The bitterest sorrows are sweetness in your adorable Heart, where everything changes to love. -Santa Margarita María.
-The love of God is the tree of life in the midst of earthly paradise. -Santa Teresa de Jesús.
-Prayer is the best weapon we have: it is the key that opens the heart of God. -Father Pio.
-God does not have to force our will; take what we give you; but it does not give itself completely until we give ourselves completely. -Santa Teresa de Jesús.
-Let's love God with a simple heart and a pure spirit, that is what He seeks above all else. -San Francisco de Asis.
-The soul that is in love with God is a gentle, humble and patient soul. - Saint John of the Cross.
-Don't complain. That shows a discontent with God's will in the present moment. That too is proof of impatience. -San Martin de Porres.
-Merit consists only in the virtue of charity, seasoned with the light of true discretion. -Santa Catherine of Siena.
-There's no illusions. No one can be excellent in big things, if first he is not excellent in small things. -San Francisco Javier.
-Jesus Christ can also break the boring schemes in which we try to lock him up and surprises us with his constant divine creativity. -John Paul II.
-The prudent man should flee from nothing so much as to live according to the opinion of others. -San Basilio Magno.
-God continually knocks on the doors of our hearts. He is always eager to enter. If it does not penetrate, the fault is ours. -San Ambrosio.
-This is, gentlemen, very good devotion of the Virgin, following her virtues. -San Juan de Ávila.
-Believe is an act of the understanding that agrees to the divine truth by the rule of the will moved by God through grace. -Saint Thomas of Aquino.
-Saints were not born saints; they came to sanctity after a long continuity of their own maturities. -Santa Micaela.
-Keep good humor in the midst of pain and illness, is a sign of a good and upright soul. -San Felipe Neri.
-God never tires of forgiving, we are the ones who tire of resorting to his mercy. -John Paul II.
-God is love and joy and He communicates it to us. God alone is sufficient. Outside of Him there is no possible happiness. -Santa Teresa de los Andes.
-Give me my daily bread, a little butter, a good digestion and something to digest. -Santo Tomás Moro.
-If the waves of pride, slander, envy hit you, look at the star, invoke Mary! -Saint Bernard.
- Truly that old age is venerable that not because of gray hair but because of its merits. -San Ambrosio.
-Humility is something very strange. At the very moment we think we have it, we have already lost it. -San Agustín de Hipona.
-We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to endure the greatest trials. - Santa Teresa de Ávila.
-Judging belongs to God. He sees the human heart, man sees only the face. -San Francisco de Sales.
-Don't think that pleasing God is as much in doing a lot as in doing it with good will, without property and respect. - Saint John of the Cross.
-Your love prevented me from childhood, grew up with me, and now it is an abyss whose depth is impossible for me to measure. -Santa Teresa de Lisieux.
-A faithful Christian, illuminated by the rays of grace like a crystal, must illuminate others with his words and actions, with the light of good example. -Saint Anthony of padua.