The Saints Answer . . .

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

~Pope St. Leo the Great

You can do nothing with children unless you win their confidence and love by bringing them into touch with yourself, by breaking through all the hindrances that keep them at a distance. We must accommodate ourselves to their tastes, we must make ourselves like them.

~St. John Bosco

 

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

~St.  Teresa of Avila

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

~Pope St. Clement I

Tribulation is a gift from God; one that he especially gives His special friends.

~St. Thomas More

 

 

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

~St. Catherine of Siena

 

Children should never be taken to church in dress that would not be thought good enough for appearing before company.
~St. John Baptiste de la Salle

 

The passion of Jesus is a sea of sorrows, but it is also an ocean of love. Ask the Lord to teach you to fish in this ocean. Dive into its depths. No matter how deep you go, you will never reach the bottom.

~St. Paul of the Cross

 

Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another's defects.

~St. Robert Bellermine (Intercessor for Down's Syndrome)

 

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

~St. Philip Neri

 

 

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

~St. Jerome 

 

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