Quotes on Holiness
and Sanctity
If God does not desire me to be a saint, He would not have created me a reasonable being. - St. Peter Julian Eymard
The shortest, yea, the only way to reach
sanctity, is to conceive a horror for all that the world loves and values. - St. Ignatius of Loyola
Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify
society. - Saint Francis of Assisi
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be. - Saint Francis de Sales
The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone. - Saint Alphonsus Liguori
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be. - Saint Francis de Sales
The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone. - Saint Alphonsus Liguori
To acquire courage it is very useful to
read the lives of the saints, especially of those who, after living in sin,
attained great sanctity. - St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
God’s invitation to become saints is for
all, not just a few. Sanctity therefore must be accessible to all. In what does
it consist? In a lot of activity? No. In doing extraordinary things? No, this
could not be for everybody and at all times. Therefore, sanctity consists in
doing good, and in doing this good in whatever condition and place God has
placed us. Nothing more, nothing outside of this. - Blessed Louis Tezza
Prayer, good reading, the frequentation of
the sacraments, with the proper dispositions, and particularly the flight of
idleness - these are, believe me, the means of sanctifying yourself. - St.
Paul of the Cross
If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want to become a great saint? Ask God to send you many sufferings. The flame of Divine Love never rises higher than when fed with the wood of the Cross, which the infinite charity of the Savior used to finish His sacrifice. All the pleasures of the world are nothing compared with the sweetness found in the gall and vinegar offered to Jesus Christ. That is, hard and painful things endured for Jesus Christ and with Jesus Christ. - Saint Ignatius of Loyola
We must have a real living
determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil myself
of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will
live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my
whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God. - Blessed Mother Teresa
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace. - Saint Augustine
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace. - Saint Augustine
The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this! - St. Peter Eymard
There is no surer way to know that one is a saint than to see him lead a holy life and yet suffer desolation, trials and tribulations. - St. Louis Gonzaga
Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well. - St. Anthony Mary Claret
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell - St. Thomas Aquinas
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