The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
Pope John Paul II
Related I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love. SARVESH JAIN Pope John Paul IIs View of the 20th Century, GEORGE WEIGEL If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph;... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces a... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of cleare... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. SAINT TERESA OF AVILA All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent cryst... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we wi... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, w... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. SAINT TERESA OF AVILA While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal rewa... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast red... SAINT AMBROSE Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ST. JEROME Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours... SAINT AUGUSTINE It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. SAINT AUGUSTINE Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. SAINT AUGUSTINE God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. SAINT AUGUSTINE Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Th... SAINT AUGUSTINE A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. ST. JEROME We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwan... MOTHER TERESA Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. SAINT AUGUSTINE The verdict of the world is conclusive. SAINT AUGUSTINE Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. SAINT AUGUSTINE The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. SAINT AUGUSTINE To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. SAINT AUGUSTINE Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation... SAINT AUGUSTINE In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. SAINT AUGUSTINE Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. SAINT AUGUSTINE God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. SAINT AUGUSTINE If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. SAINT AUGUSTINE Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet. SAINT AUGUSTINE God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. SAINT AUGUSTINE Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses ... SAINT AUGUSTINE It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey. SAINT IGNATIUS Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. MOTHER TERESA True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. ST. JEROME Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. ST. JEROME My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr... ST. JEROME I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f... ST. JEROME First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions... SAINT BASIL Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Cr... SAINT IGNATIUS Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv... MOTHER TERESA That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets... SAINT PATRICK Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not... SAINT AUGUSTINE I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C... SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure... SAINT BERNARD There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things. SAINT BASIL We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not s... SAINT BASIL Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health. SAINT BASIL What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who do... SAINT BASIL Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does n... SAINT BASIL Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that th... SAINT AMBROSE Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body... SAINT AMBROSE It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well. SAINT AMBROSE I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec... SAINT PATRICK Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be... SAINT IGNATIUS It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ... SAINT IGNATIUS Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s... EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t... EDITH STEIN Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology... EDITH STEIN The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli... EDITH STEIN May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that... SAINT IGNATIUS To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime. SAINT IGNATIUS No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a li... SAINT BASIL Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God. ATHANASIUS The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn,... SAINT IGNATIUS A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA May God protect me from gloomy saints. SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. SAINT TERESA OF AVILA My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God&... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing tri... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us t... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for ser... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Pain is never permanent. SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that... SAINT IGNATIUS I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I d... SAINT PATRICK The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. MOTHER TERESA Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barr... SAINT AMBROSE As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As... SAINT BASIL I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barb... SAINT PATRICK Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too ... SAINT AMBROSE When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what... SAINT IGNATIUS I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God,... SAINT PATRICK If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not... ISAAC OF NINEVEH Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy... SAINT AMBROSE It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep... SAINT IGNATIUS Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. ST. JEROME Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ... SAINT AUGUSTINE Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. SAINT AUGUSTINE
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