Peace, Prayer, Quotes of Saints, Spirituality

Praying for Peace: Quotes from the Saints

August 29, 2026 Vicki Scheenstra

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let not your heart be troubled, and do not be afraid.” John 14:27.

Quote of Jesus

Peace and serenity of heart are difficult to acquire. The world is a chaotic place to live. Our emotions can make us feel quite helpless. How do we find peace? How do we live in peace? Faith is a gift. With faith, we can pray for peace

The following 25 quotes of the saints are ‘pearls of wisdom’ to help us on our journey

1. Lord, Make me an instrument of Thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

St. Francis of Assisi

2. Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit.

St. Peter Julian Eymard

3. Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?”

St. Gerard Majella

4. Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

St. Francis de Sales

5. From humility of heart proceed serenity of mind, gentleness of conduct, interior peace, and every good.”

St. Paul of the Cross

6. While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it more fully in your heart.

Saint Francis of Assisi

7. If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.

St. John Paul II

8. Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.

St. Padre Pio

9. Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.

St Faustina

10. Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me.

St. Jane Frances de Chantal

11. Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

St. Therese of Lisieux

12. But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.

St. Mary Margaret Alacoque

13. Peace in the society depends on peace in family.

St. Augustine

14. Be at Peace. What God has started He will finish.

St Faustina

15. Let peace be your quest and aim.

St. Benedict

16. Be peace loving.Peace is a precious treasure to be sought with great zeal. Live your life that you may receive the blessings of the Lord. Then the peace of God the Father will be with you always.

St. Francis of Paola

17. Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls.

St. Seraphim of Sarov

18. Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

St. Jerome

19. The only way to peace is forgiveness.

St. John Paul II

20. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

21. Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to His good pleasure and rest in Him.

St. John of the Cross

22. If you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world and forever in the next.

St. Jerome

23. Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ, just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey. They must have the Passion of Christ deeply embedded in their minds and hearts, because only from it, can they derive peace, grace, and truth.

St. Dominic

24. Strive to preserve your heart in peace; let no event of the world disturb it.

St. John of the Cross

25. Peace demands four essential conditions: Truth, Justice, Love, and Freedom.

St. John Paul II

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Twenty Five Quotes from the Saints about Patience

August 26, 2026 Vicki Scheenstra

Do you struggle with impatience? Many of us are impulsive, wanting results right now! The saints are people who persevered and patiently waited for God’s help during good times and bad times.

The following quotes will help us to reflect before acting in small and big events of our lives.

1. Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is ‘timing’. It waits on the right time to act for the right principles and in the right way.

Ven. Fullton Sheen

2. Have patience with all things, but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes, with your value as a human being.

St. Francis de Sales

3. The reward of patience is patience.

St. Augustine

4. Let us be glad and bear with patience everything the world throws at us, secure in the knowledge that it is then that we are most in the mind of God.

St. Basil the Great

5. The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work, with all our strength.

St. Peter Damian

6. It is patience that reveals every grace to you and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.

St. Pachomius the Great

7. Be not perplexed. Be not afraid. Everything passes. God does not change. Patience wins all things. He who has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

St. Teresa of Avila

8. The wicked exist in the wotld either to be converted or that through them the good man exercise patience.

St. Augustine

9. Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

St. Francis de Sales

10. What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

St. France de Sales

11. Be patient because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul, so they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

St. Francis of Assisi

12. We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.

St. Vincent de Paul

13. There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

St. Basil the Great

14. For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research. To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting.

St. John Paul II

15. O Loving Jesus, increase my patience according as my sufferngs increase.

St. Rita

16. There is no sin or wrong that gives man a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

St. Catherine Siena

17. When the night is darkest and thy burden feel too heavy,, hold on to patience, for the dawn is surely coming soon.

St. Teresa of Avila

18. Be humble and patient, and the Lord Jesus will give you the will and the means.

St. John Bosco

19. As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are hmiliations the path that leads to humility.

St. Bernard Clairvieux

St. Bernard Clairvaux
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20. Do not seek to escape your cross too quickly, for it is through the patient carrying of it that we find true grace.

St. Therese of Lisieux

21. Let your patience be a shield against the arrows of despair that seek to pierce the heart and the faithful believer.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

22. Lord, give me patience in tribulation.

St. Thomas More, Martyr

23. Charity is the bond which unites brothers, the cement of peace, the cross beam which gives solidity to unity…Only take patience from it, however, and it will remain desolate; take from it the sap of suffering and of resignation and it will lose its roots and its vigor.

St. Cyprian

24. Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause.

St. John Cantius

25. Gracious and Holy Father, give us the wisdom to discover You, the intelligence to understand You, the patience to wait for You, a heart to meditate upon You, Eyes to Behold You, a life to proclaim You, through the power of the Spirit of Jesus, Our Lord. Amen

St. Benedict

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Prayers, Quips, Quotes; St. Hyacinth of Poland, Feast Day August 17

August 15, 2026 Vicki Scheenstra

St. Hyacinth of Poland
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St. Hyacinth of Poland

The Feast Day of St. Hyacinth of Poland is celebrated on August 17.

St. Hyacinth was born in 1185 to noble parents in Odrowacz, Poland. He was educated by his uncle who was a pious priest who eventually became the Bishop of Cracow. He was a very happy and pious child with an early calling to the religious life. He studied at Bologna earning the degree of Doctor of Canon Law and Divinity.

St. Hyacinth returned to Poland. On a trip to Rome with his uncle he met St. Dominic. He was one of the first to join the Order of Preachers, becoming a Dominican. He returned to Poland to establish the Dominican Order.

St. Hyacinth was a wonderful preacher. He converted many people and was able to build churches and convents. He visited the sick and was a friend to the poor. He became known for the many miracles which occurred. The most famous happened during the Tartars siege of the city of Kiev. Hyacinth had a tender devotion to the Mother of God. After celebrating Mass unaware of the siege occurring, he retrieved the Blessed Sacrament and a statue of Mary and fled with the community to the river Dnieper. Although the river was deep he led them across the river walking on the water. His footprints could be seen on the water for centuries.

The last years of St. Hyacinth’s life were lived in a convent at Cracow. On the feast of St. Dominic, he fell ill with a fever. He celebrated Mass on the Feast of the Assumption in spite of his illness. He was anointed at the Altar and died later that day on August 15, 1257.

St. Hyacinth was canonized by Pope Clement VIII in 1594.

“The greater danger for most of us
is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.”

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Stephen of Hungary, Feast Day August 16

August 14, 2026 Vicki Scheenstra

St. Stephen of Hungary

The Feast Day of St. Stephen of Hungary is celebrated on August 16.

St. Stephen was born in the year 973. His mother was the Duchess Sarolt. She had had a vision in which the first St. Stephen, the first martyr of the church had appeared to her. She was told she would bear a son who would evangelize the land.

St. Stephen’s father was the Duke Geza. Both his mother and father were converted to Christianity by Bishop St. Adalbert of Prague. The Bishop baptized St. Stephen at the age of ten. St. Stephen married Gesela who was a sister to the Duke of Bavaria in 995. Sadly, he survived all his children. Only one child lived to be an adult. This son, Emeric, died in a hunting accident in 1031.

St. Stephen use their wealth to build a monastery and encouraged the people of the land to convert to Christianity. The laws of the land which St. Stephen enacted favored Christianity over paganism. He sent a request to Pope Sylvester II to proclaim him as King of Hungary. Pope Sylvester II was happy to oblige. He sent Stephen a crown and gold processional cross.

As King, St. Stephen was generous to the poor and sick. He was devoted to the Virgin Mary, building several churches in her honor. Mary is credited with preventing both a war and the assassination of King Stephen. While he was king, St. Stephen also established a monastery in Jerusalem.

St. Stephen died on August 15, 1038, the Feast of the Assumption of Mary after suffering an illness. He was buried next to his son Emerick. They were both canonized saints in 1083.

“It is a fact that people are always

well aware of what is due them.

Unfortunately, they remain oblivious

of what they owe to others.”

Quote of St. Francis de Sales; Feast Day January 24

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Twenty Five Quotes from the Saints on Suffering and Sorrow

August 9, 2026 Vicki Scheenstra

Suffering comes in many forms. Pain, illness, loss, and death of a loved one all cause grief and sorrow. Turning to God during troubled times can be very difficult. Let the words of the Saints help you as you travel on your spiritual journey.

1. I’m suffering very much, but am I suffering very well?

St. Therese of Lisieux

2. Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.

St. Clare of Assisi

3. I am prepared to suffer more. I know the Lord is with me. He has some plan for me. How can I requite His kindness.

St. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception

4. I will willingly abandon this miserable bed to hunger and suffering provided that my soul may have its ordinary nourishment.

St. Kateri Tekakwitha

5. O my Jesus, give me Your strength, when my weak nature rebels against the distress and sufferings of this life of exile, and enable me to accept everything with prosperity and peace.

With my whole strength, I cling to Your merits Your sufferings, Your atonement, and Your tears so that I may be able to cooperate with you in the work of Salvation.

Prayer of Padre Pio

6. 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 depth. No matter how deep you go, you will never reach the bottom

St. Paul of the Cross

7. Mary’s sorrow was less when she saw her only Son crucified, than it is now at the sight of man offending Him by sin.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

8. The virgin may suitably be called a blooming rose. Just as the gentle rose is placed among thorns, so the gentle Virgin was surrounded by sorrow.

St. Brigid of Ireland

9. Suffering gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

St. Therese Lisieux

10. Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

St. Faustina

11. Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God’s loving kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

St. Bernard of Clairveaux

12. In every disappointment, great or small, let your heart fly directly to your dear Savior, throwing yourself against every pain and sorrow, Jesus will never leave you or forsake you.

St. Elizabeth Seton

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
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13. Learn to suffer a little for the love of God without telling everyone about it.

St. Teresa of Avila

14. Suffering, no matter how difficult it may be, when compared to the good that is accomplished, makes every pain a joy for the soul.

St. Padre Pio

15. Love without suffering does not exist.

St. Bernadette

16. He will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations.

St. Francis de Sales

17. In suffering God gives strength, but in action and in joy the soul does but show its own weakness and imperfection. And in suffering the soul practices and acquires virtue and becomes pure, wiser and more cautious.

St John of the Cross

18. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your Guardian Angel with strong trust and he will help you.

St. John Bosco

19. Pain, suffering and sorrow are but the kiss of Jesus-a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

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20. All the science of the saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

St. Francis de Sales

21. We should strive to keep our hearts open to the suffering and wretchedness of other people, pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the Spirit of God.

St. Vincent de Paul

22. To suffer and be happy through suffering, to have ones feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough path of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father’s right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels–this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.

St. Edith Stein

23. Those who pray and suffer, leaving action for others, will not shine here on earth; but what a radiant crown they will wear in the Kingdom of Life! Blessed be the “apostolic of suffering!”

St. Josemaria Escriva

24. Suffering is transformed and elevated when in these moments we become aware of God’s closeness and solidarity. This is the certainty that gives inner peace and spiritual joy to the person who suffers generously and offers his pain as a “living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God” (Romans 12.)

St. John Paul II

25. My Lord Jesus Christ, two graces I beg of you before I die. The first is that in my lifetime I may feel in my soul and in my body, as far as possible, that sorrow which you, sweet Jesus, endured in the hour of your bitter passion. The second is that I may feel in my heart, as far as possible, that abundance of love with which you, Son of God, were inflamed, so as willing to endure so great a passion for us sinners.

St. Francis Assisi, Prayer for Holy Sorrow

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Inspired by Grace: Quotes of the Saints

August 6, 2026 Vicki Scheenstra

Grace is a wonderful gift from God. It is not earned but given to us in love. When we become aware that God is with us, guiding us…everything changes. Grace is the present of God’ presence! God is not a distant God. He created us and loves us.

Let’s turn to the saints to find out how they felt about grace.

1. Let us not be afraid to suffer for the truth; for if we suffer for the truth, we shall find grace.

St. Hyacinth

2. Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggle increases.

St. Rose of Lima

3. How great it is to possess Divine Grace, How beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights!

St. Rose of Lima

4. The Grace of God does not find men fit for salvation, but makes them so.

St. Augustine

5. If only we would learn how great it is to possess Divine Grace and how many riches it has within itself, how many joys and delights. We would devote all our concern to winning for ourselves pains and aflictions in order to attain the unfathomable treasure of grace.

St. Rose of Lima

6. I am where God wills me to be. I have found rest and security. His wisdom governs me. His grace sanctifies me. His mercy encompasses me. His joy sustains me and all will be well with me.

St. Rose Phillippine Duchesne

7. The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic God’s giving, by grace, through faith and this is not of ourselves.

St. Nicholas

8. Be attentive to the voice of grace.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

9. Grace is like the sun. It shines on all, but only those who open their eyes and look up receive the light. The soul must be willing and awake, or the light passes by unnoticed.

St. Macarius of Egypt

10. In trial, God grants His grace to those who trust in Him.

St. Rita Cascia

11. Let every journey be a prayer, and every road a path of grace.

St. Bona of Pisa

12. Lord, give me the grace to work for the things I pray for.

St. Thomas More

13. The greatest grace God can give someone is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers…and then sustain him with His grace so he may endure to the end and be saved.

St. Justin Martyr

St. Justin Marty
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14. Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.

St. Barnabas

15. Rich is the mercy of our God, and abundantly does He bestow grace upon grace on those who love Him.

St. Elizabeth Schoenna

16. What is true in the order of nature is true in the order of super-nature or grace. Only those who use the graces they are given are given more.

Venerable Fulton Sheen

17. If I am in God’s good grace, may He.keep me there. If I am not, may He put me there.

St. Joan of Arc

18. To receive the grace of God you must go to the desert and stay awhile.

St. Charles de Foucauld

19. Be good, love the Lord, pray for those who do not know Him. What a grace it is to know God!

St. Josephina Bakhita

20. He who knows how to forgive, prepares for himself many graces from God. As often as I look upon the cross, so often will I forgive with all my heart.

St. Faustina

21. Let us ask three graces of Jesus, to avoid Purgatory, to learn from Purgatory, to empty Purgatory.

Blessed James Alberione

22. What grace is meant to do, is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds it’s strength in faith.

St. Augustine

I also understood that God’s love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace, as it does in the loftiest soul.

St. Therese of Lisieux

24. The more I reflect on the graces I have received,the more they astonish me and make me tremble.

St. Rose Philippine Duchesne

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25. Take, O Lord and receive my liberty, my memory, my whole understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me. I surrender it all to You to be disposed acording to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace, with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Cajetan, Feast Day August 7

August 5, 2026 Vicki Scheenstra

St. Cajetan by Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene

The Feast Day of St. Cajetan is celebrated on August 7. He was born in Vicenza, Italy, in 1480. St. Cajetan is the patron saint of the unemployed.

Even as a child Cajetan was very devout. He studied at Padua becoming a lawyer. He then was ordained a priest in Rome working for the Roman Curia. He joined the Oratory of Divine Love in Rome, which was devoted to charity and piety.

At the age of 42, he founded a hospital for incurables in Venice. He served the sick and the poor. St. Cajetan along with three friends decided to bring zeal back to the clergy. They founded an order known as the Theatines. They focused on reforming the clergy. After the sack of Rome, they escaped to Venice when their house was ruined in 1527. Members of his order took a strict vow of poverty, depending entirely on Divine Providence rather than on income.

One Christmas Eve when Cajetan was passing the Church of St. Mary Major, the Holy Child appeared to him, and the Blessed Virgin laid the child in the Saints arms filling his soul with joy. He had many visions in his life and was known for being in a state of ecstasy during prayer. He miraculously cured many who were sick including a man whose foot was to be amputated due to gangrene. After telling the man to trust in God and ask for the intercession of St. Francis, he kissed the foot, rebandaged it and made the sign of the cross over it. The following day the foot was healed.

St. Cajetan died in 1547 after receiving the last sacraments. Many miracles were attributed to him after his death.
St. Cajetan was canonized by Clement X in 1671.

“There is no road to Heaven

but that of Innocence or Penance.”

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Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Peter Julian Eymard, Feast Day August 2

August 1, 2026 Vicki Scheenstra

The Feast Day of St. Peter Julian Eymard is celebrated on August 2. Peter was born in 1811 in La Mure, France. He worked with his father as a cutler until he was 18.

While he was still a teenager, St. Peter told his father of his desire to become a priest. His father was adamantly against it, wanting him to stay in the family business. Peter began to study Latin while continuing to work for his father. Two years later, Peter’s father refused his request to attend college, wanting him to continue to work with him. Peter managed to attend college by accepting a scholarship. He also worked for a priest at a hospital for the insane.

While at college, his mother died. A priest from the Oblates of Mary received permission at this time from Peter’s father for him to enter the Oblate novitiate. His father died two years later. Five months after entering the novitiate, Peter became very ill. he struggled with illness throughout his life. After his father’s death he entered the seminary at Grenoble. After his ordination he joined the community of Marists. His devotion to the Eucharist and perpetual adoration grew. He helped to spread the devotion of perpetual adoration. St. Peter became known as the Apostle of the Eucharist. He wrote many different books about the Eucharist including How to get more out of Holy Communion.

St. Peter Julian Eymard died in 1868 and was canonized in 1962. He is the patron saint of Eucharistic Devotion.

The Lord comes into us Sacramentally in order to live there spiritually.

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Praying for Peace: Quotes from the Saints

Twenty Five Quotes from the Saints about Patience

Prayers, Quips, Quotes; St. Hyacinth of Poland, Feast Day August 17

Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Stephen of Hungary, Feast Day August 16

“It is a fact that people are always

well aware of what is due them.

Unfortunately, they remain oblivious

of what they owe to others.”

Quote of St. Francis de Sales; Feast Day January 24

August is the Month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Twenty Five Quotes from the Saints on Suffering and Sorrow

Inspired by Grace: Quotes of the Saints

Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Cajetan, Feast Day August 7

Prayers, Quips and Quotes: St. Peter Julian Eymard, Feast Day August 2

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