Saintly Advice

Our temptation is to admire saints from such a distance that we forget they were still human beings. Regardless of anyone's views on religion the teachings of these leaders are valuable even today.

• Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You’re a perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. Unconditional self-acceptance is the core of a peaceful mind.

--St. Francis de Sales

• To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. 

--St. Thomas Aquinas

• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. 

--St. Augustine

•  It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

--St. Ignatius of Loyola

• I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it. 

--St. Faustina

• Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom. 

--St. Augustine

• Listen and attend with the ear of your heart 

--St. Benedict

• Patience is the companion of wisdom. 

--St. Augustine

• He who climbs never stops going from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end. He never stops desiring what he already knows. 

St. Gregory of Nissa

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