More quotes from saints

A lamp is not lighted by itself, so the human soul does not give light to itself but calls out to God: " You indeed, O Lord, give light to my lamp."
-- St. Augustine

Jesus is the teacher of holiness. I go to Him because I want Him to teach one how to become a Saint. Of what use to me is all I learn in school if I do not become holy?
-- St. Francis DeSales

Faith seeks understanding.
-- St. Anselm, Proslogion proemium

Don't draw back, and worse still, don't stop going up the Calvary of life. Jesus will extend His hand to steady you. The thought of the sustaining grace of God and the prize that Jesus has reserved for you will be a sweet comfort.
-- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

What was the life of Christ but a perpetual humiliation?
-- St. Vincent de Paul

There is no sin or wrong that gives a man a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience.
-- St.Catherine of Sienna