The Life and Prayers of Saint Anthony of Padua Quotes

“would personally encounter the atrocities of the crusades as an adult, and his family’s”
― Wyatt North, The Life and Prayers of Saint Anthony of Padua

“So the religious soul finds in the heart of Jesus a secure refuge against the attacks of Satan, and a delightful retreat. But one must not stay at the entrance...she must hasten to the very source from which it springs, into the very innermost sanctuary of the heart of Jesus. There she will find light, peace, and ineffable consolations.”
― Wyatt North, The Life and Prayers of Saint Anthony of Padua

“It was not a stretch for S. Anthony to emulate the teachings of both Augustine and Francis whose model of piety was time given to silence and solitude, meditation, and lectia divina, or reflection on Scripture”
― Wyatt North, The Life and Prayers of Saint Anthony of Padua

“The Franciscan Friars of the Province of S. Anthony of America (in Ellicott City, MD)”
― Wyatt North, The Life and Prayers of Saint Anthony of Padua

“Pope John Paul II extolled the saint’s preaching by attesting to his use of scholarly tools he had available at the time, and by speaking the same language as his hearers, measures which helped to assure that Gospel values were received by the popular culture of his day. S. Anthony did not discriminate among his hearers.”
― Wyatt North, The Life and Prayers of Saint Anthony of Padua

“You may be the only Bible others will ever read,”
― Wyatt North, The Life and Prayers of Saint Anthony of Padua

“S. Anthony would be the first to say that anyone can follow in his footsteps by being contemplatively receptive, biblically attentive, and ready to answer to the cries of the needy.”
― Wyatt North, The Life and Prayers of Saint Anthony of Padua