Saint of the Day Quotes

“The bread which you do not use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes that you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the money that you keep locked away is the money of the poor; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“He wrote what may be called a summary of the Bible: “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“Today, there is an inescapable duty to make ourselves the neighbor of every individual, without exception, and to take positive steps to help a neighbor whom we encounter, whether that neighbor be an elderly person, abandoned by everyone, a foreign worker who suffers the injustice of being despised, a refugee, an illegitimate child wrongly suffering for a sin of which the child is innocent, or a starving human being who awakens our conscience by calling to mind the words of Christ: ‘As long as you did it for one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it for me’ (Matthew 25:40)” (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, 27).”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“Charity and justice go together.”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“Men desire authority for its own sake that they may bear a rule, command and control other men, and live uncommanded and uncontrolled themselves” (St. Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort).”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“It’s twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“The name of Jesus is debased if any Christian uses it as justification for berating non-Christians.”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“Your life is not an endless series of open doors! Listen to your heart! Do not stay on the surface but go to the heart of things! And when the time is right, have the courage to decide! The Lord is waiting for you to put your freedom in his good hands.”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“If according to times and needs you should be obliged to make fresh rules and change certain things, do it with prudence and good advice.”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“Hildegard’s visions caused her to see human beings as “living sparks” of God’s love, coming from God as daylight comes from the sun.”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“Racism is a sin almost nobody confesses. Like pollution, it is a “sin of the world” that is everybody’s responsibility but apparently nobody’s fault.”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“The definition of truth is an endless, complex pursuit, and good men and women have suffered the pain of both controversy and error. Intellectual, emotional, and political roadblocks may slow up people like Cyril for a time. But their lives taken as a whole are monuments to honesty and courage.”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“and I abroad, and there I searched”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints

“I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.” These are the words of Theresa of the Child Jesus,”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: Lives, Lessons and Feasts

“QUOTE: “In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave your heart. And that you may more surely obtain the assistance of her prayer, neglect not to walk in her footsteps. With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal” (Saint Bernard).  ”
― Leonard Foley, Saint of the Day: Lives, Lessons and Feasts