True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stron...
ST. THERESA OF LISIEUX When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to t...
ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST THERESA OF JESUS I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream...
THéRèSE OF LISIEUX Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
THERESE OF LISIEUX Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
THERESE OF LISIEUX I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, ...
THéRèSE OF LISIEUX Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way...
THéRèSE OF LISIEUX I choose them all! I want them all!
THERESE OF LISIEUX The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.
THERESE OF LISIEUX Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to cho...
THERESE OF LISIEUX The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent n...
THERESE OF LISIEUX Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
THERESE OF LISIEUX One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.
THERESE OF LISIEUX There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
SAINT THERESA OF JESUS 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 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 Hell is full of good intentions or desires.
ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX 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 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 Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion...
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of ...
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has d...
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the ...
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily
do not rob the little violet of it’s s...
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX Qu'importe, mon Dieu, que je brûle toute l'éternité en enfer, si c'est ta volonté.
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I ca...
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at t...
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of rec...
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX 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 No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the ...
THERESA MAY The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.
THERESA MAY It is very important that people see there is a bright future, and we can re-engage that entrepreneu...
THERESA MAY The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. - different but a ...
THERESA MAY Many British people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit a great dea...
THERESA MAY The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do.
THERESA MAY I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit.
THERESA MAY And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets ab...
THERESA MAY I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layer...
THERESA REBECK Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this ...
THERESA MAY We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he w...
THERESA MAY If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the ...
THERESA MAY The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; a...
MOTHER THERESA Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call...
MOTHER THERESA There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only...
MOTHER THERESA There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ...
MOTHER THERESA Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
MOTHER THERESA I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a ...
MOTHER THERESA Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love witho...
MOTHER THERESA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
MOTHER THERESA There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a bro...
MOTHER THERESA Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
MOTHER THERESA I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
MOTHER THERESA If you judge people you have no time to love them.
MOTHER THERESA If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
MOTHER THERESA More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
MOTHER THERESA Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t...
MOTHER THERESA Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
MOTHER THERESA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
MOTHER THERESA Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater ri...
MOTHER THERESA When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food...
MOTHER THERESA The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
MOTHER THERESA Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hea...
MOTHER THERESA I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha...
MOTHER THERESA There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of cha...
MOTHER THERESA It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER THERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in th...
MOTHER THERESA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money...
MOTHER THERESA To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
MOTHER THERESA There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
MOTHER THERESA As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God an...
MOTHER THERESA One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
MOTHER THERESA 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 There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; ...
MOTHER THERESA Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's ki...
MOTHER THERESA We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil m...
MOTHER THERESA Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac...
MOTHER THERESA Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a hear...
MOTHER THERESA Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
MOTHER THERESA Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilitie...
MOTHER THERESA So many signatures for such a small heart.
MOTHER THERESA The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left...
MOTHER THERESA If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is someth...
MOTHER THERESA We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....
MOTHER THERESA If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
MOTHER THERESA Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunge...
MOTHER THERESA Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger,...
MOTHER THERESA Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa.
MOTHER THERESA Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not b...
MOTHER THERESA One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
MOTHER THERESA Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with...
THERESA MAY On gay adoption I have changed my mind.
THERESA MAY Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed ...
THERESA REBECK Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours eve...
THERESA MAY Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the pres...
THERESA REBECK Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not pos...
THERESA MAY Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of s...
THERESA MAY I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
THERESA MAY In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
THERESA MAY If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in polit...
THERESA MAY National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substan...
THERESA MAY You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
THERESA MAY The use of water cannon could have changed the face of British policing; it would have made a huge d...
THERESA MAY Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Taro...
THERESA CHEUNG I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I d...
THERESA REBECK Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackl...
THERESA MAY There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door,...
THERESA MAY Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets ol...
THERESA REBECK Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a...
THERESA MAY It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermark...
THERESA MAY I think it's straight men who are oblivious to goodness or badness to dates. That's probably...
THERESA REBECK Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresse...
THERESA MAY Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.
THERESA MAY Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually...
THERESA MAY I think we all agree that the comments Donald Trump made in relation to Muslims were divisive, unhel...
THERESA MAY Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if ...
THERESA MAY A number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions taken b...
THERESA MAY We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the stat...
THERESA MAY Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American the...
THERESA REBECK It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together.
THERESA MAY Kind words may be short... but their echoes are endless.
MOTHER THERESA May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant...
MOTHER THERESA Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
MOTHER THERESA Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was fi...
THERESA MAY We're going to do everything in our power to have the graduation on the football field.
THERESA HAMILTON We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do it...
THERESA MAY I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major.
THERESA MAY I remember when I was at Brandeis, Geoffrey Wolff, he was a great fiction-writing teacher. He was th...
THERESA REBECK