“Strive to preserve your heart in peace, and let no event of this world disturb it.” – St. Francis de Sales
“Don’t lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” – St. Francis de Sales
“Adversity it the touchstone of the soul, because it makes manifest the degree of its virtue. One act of thanksgiving when matters go wrong, is wroth a thousand thanks when all things please us.” – St. Placid
“And to say that the Church has failed – what else is it but to say that all our predecessors are damned. Yes, truly; for outside the Church there is no salvation, out of this Ark every one is lost.” – St. Francis De Sales
“If He permits sorrow, interior or exterior trials, personal or public vicissitudes, it is only to draw out of them some greater good. Virtue and goodness are strengthened in time of difficulty.” – Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen
“But not to will those things which are actually taking place, is to have a will opposed to the decree of God, to Whose Providence whatever is done is subject.” – St. Thomas Aquinas
“God wishes to test you like gold in the furnace. The dross is consumed by the fire, but the pure gold remains and its value increases. It is in this manner that God acts with His servant, who puts his hope in Him and remains unshaken in times of distress.” – St. Jerome Emiliani
“If you are in danger, if your hearts are confused, turn to Mary; she is our comfort, our help; turn towards her and you will be saved.” – St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
“And that you may obtain the assistance of her prayer, neglect not to walk in her footsteps. With her for guide, you shall never go astray” – St. Bernard of Clairvaux
“One of the most excellent means of obtaining perseverance is discretion; we must not wish to do everything at once, or become a saint in four days.” – St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
“Those who are going to Communion should prepare themselves for more temptations than usual, for the Lord will not have us stand idle.” – St. Padre Pio
“Trust all things to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary Help of Christians and you will see what miracles are.” – St. John Bosco
“Be very careful to retain peace of heart, because Satan casts his lines in troubled waters.” – St. Paul of the Cross
“In your pains and trials say: ‘May Thy holy will be done, Oh my God! I welcome thee, afflictions! Beloved sufferings, I press you to my heart! Ah! dear hand of my God, I bless Thee!” – St. Paul of the Cross
“The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.” – St. Peter Damian
“The work which God accomplishes in your soul is done in view of making you advance in humility; exterior and interior trials, humiliations, and aridity… are meant to extinguish the fires of self-love, pride, and earthly affections.” – Fr. Gabriel of St Mary Magdalen
“Above all one should accept everything, in general and individually, in oneself or in others, agreeable or disagreeable, with a prompt and confident spirit, as coming from the hand of His infallible Providence or the order He has arranged.” – St. Albert the Great
“Try to put joy, not the joy you can feel but the joy of your will, into every irritation, every sacrifice” – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
“Remembrance of Our Lord’s Passion will heal your soul of resentment, making it ashamed of itself when it remembers the patience of The Lord.” – St. John Climacus
“It is the devil’s greatest triumph when he can deprive us of the joy of the Spirit… if any are gloomy and think that they are abandoned in their sorrow, gloominess will continuously tear at them… When gloominess takes root, evil grows.” – St. Francis of Assisi
“There would be no heathen, if we Christians took care to be what we ought to be; if we obeyed God’s precepts, if we bore injuries without retaliation, if when cursed we blessed, if we rendered good for evil.” – St. Chrysostom
“Bend thy back obediently under all afflictions coming from God, whether direct or through men, suffering with all willingness, as under His chastening hand. Carry all burdens back again to Him. Lay every sorrow at His feet with unfeigned gratitude.” – Johannes Tauler
“God is more anxious to bestow His blessings on us than we are to receive them. For it is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings.” – St. Augustine
“Better are sins with humility than innocence with pride.” – St. Optatus
(More quotes from more Saints coming soon…)
All Holy Angels and Saints, orate pro nobis. Amen.
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