Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangel...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Ca...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they b...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Foun...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Beginning a short series on prayer: Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, ...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song ...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX The Christian glories in the death of a pagan, because thereby Christ himself is glorified
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX He who labours as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.

There ar...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Qui me amat, amet et canem meum. (Who loves me will love my dog also.)
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX hell is full of good wishes and desires.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX What we love we shall grow to resemble." Bernard of Clairvaux
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded, With a crown of thorns surrounded, Buffeted, and bruised an...
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Who loves me will love my dog also. [Fr., Que me amat, amet et canem meum.]
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat...
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.]
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
ST. BERNARD Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
ST. BERNARD Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
ST. BERNARD It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
ST. BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
ST. BERNARD The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
ST. BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD ST. It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
BERNARD, ST. Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
BERNARD, ST. I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD, ST. Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD, ST. Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
BERNARD, ST. The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD, ST. Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never a...
BERNARD, ST. Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD ST. The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD ST. Nothing can work me damage except myself.
ST. BERNARD Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.
BERNARD OF CLUNY True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stron...
ST. THERESA OF LISIEUX Love is inseparable from knowledge.
ST. MACARIUS OF EGYPT Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
ST. THERESA OF LISIEUX When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, n...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exe...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to t...
ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attai...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . . .
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI The impossible - what nobody can do until somebody does
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can ill...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, althoug...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Preach the Gospel at all times ... if necessary, use words.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI For it is in giving that we receive.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Preach the gospel to all the world, and if necessary, use words
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one te...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Learn to selfconquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage w...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God'...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's min...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Normal....
What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.
So what if the majori...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA Good actions get good results in time.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASISSI How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST THERESA OF JESUS It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA It is love alone that gives worth to all things
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
ST. TERESA OF AVILA To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God suffi...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. ...
ST. CLARE OF ASSISI Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be goo...
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is in...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
LETTERS OF ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird t...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will lea...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the l...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS To saints, their very slumber is a prayer.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Be...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor t...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlighte...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for the...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Homines sunt voluntates
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO. - THE CITY OF GOD - XIV The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in t...
ST. JEROME Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse mee...
ST. VINCENT The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had peo...
ST. VINCENT The golden age is before us, not behind us.
ST. SIMON Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROME Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE Prayer is a groan.
ST. JEROME A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy re...
ST. BASIL Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
ST. BASIL When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers l...
ST. BASIL Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of nec...
ST. BASIL Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
ST. AUGUSTINE The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust.
ST. AUGUSTINE The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
ST. AUGUSTINE Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
ST. BASIL God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p...
ST. AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ST. JEROME Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously ...
ST. VINCENT A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o...
ST. JEROME I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everyt...
ST. VINCENT I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f...
ST. JEROME A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almos...
ST. VINCENT My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr...
ST. JEROME Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something...
ST. VINCENT I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.
ST. LUCIA Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.
ST. AUGUSTINE The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob...
ST. AUGUSTINE God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should s...
ST. AUGUSTINE Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
ST. AUGUSTINE Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ...
ST. AUGUSTINE God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin...
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The truth is neither mi...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ...
ST. AUGUSTINE What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which...
ST. AUGUSTINE Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ...
ST. AUGUSTINE My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan go...
ST. VINCENT The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
ST. LUCIA To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking a...
ST. VINCENT Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completel...
ST. VINCENT Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat...
ST. JEROME I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, &...
ST. VINCENT Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a m...
ST. BASIL What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
ST. JEROME And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, rig...
ST. VINCENT I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain...
ST. LUCIA If you want to build a ship
don’t herd people together to collect wood
and don’t assig...
ST. EXUPERY No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
ST. BASIL I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT I just believe that everybody has concerns and is interested in the educational process,
ST. AMBROSE Where Peter is, there must be the Church
ST. AMBROSE There is no time of life past learning something.
ST. AMBROSE I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
ST. VINCENT St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this no...
ST. LUCIA Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confes...
ST. ISADORE Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
ST. AUGUSTINE