The Mystery of Faith

St. Polycarp…Church Father

6. He is an all-powerful God, who is Truth

St. Faustina

7. Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit, which it sours to the Truth.

St. John Paul II

8. There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

St. John Paul II

9. I can nourish myself on nothing but Truth.

St. Therese of Lisieux

10. Jesus said, ” I am the Truth” and it is your duty and mine to speak the truth, then it is up to the person who hears it whether to accept or reject it.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

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11. When lies have been accepted for some time, Truth always stands with an air of novelty.

St. Clement of Alexandria…Church Father

12. True happiness is to rejoice in the Truth, for to rejoice in theTruth is to rejoice in you, O God, who are the Truth, you my God, my true Light, to whom I look for salvation.

St. Augustine

13. To lovers of the Truth, nothing can be put before God and Home in Him.

St. Basil

14. Do not accept anything as Love which lacks Truth.

St Edith Stein

15. If I do not speak the truth, I become a slave of the father of lies and beome a member of the Father of lies.

St. Jerome Emiliani

16. Speak the Truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills.

St. Catherine of Siena

17. Sin makes a man a coward, a life in the Truth of Christ makes him bold.

St. John Chrysostom

18. For He who is true God is also True man; and there is no deception in this union, where the loftiness of God and the lowliness of man are brought together.

St. Leo the Great

19. No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek Truth and to serve it when we have found it.

St. Maximilian Kolbe

20. Serve the Lord in fear and Truth.

21. God is supreme Truth; and to be humble is to walk in Truth.

St. Teresa of Avila.

22. Charity and kindness unwedded to Truth are not charity and kindness but deceit and vanity.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

23. My longing for truth was a single prayer.

St Edith Stein

24. Seek the Truth, Do the Good, Love the Beautiful!

St. John Henry Newman

25. What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

St. John Chrysostom

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Prayer, Quote

Quote for Today Pope Leo XIV

June 30, 2025 Vicki Scheenstra

Unity in the Church and among the Churches is fostered by forgiveness and mutual trust, beginning with our families and communities. If Jesus can trust us, we can certainly trust one another in his name.

June 29,2025 Pope Leo XIV on X.

The history of Peter and Paul shows us that the communion to which the Lord calls us is a unison of voices and personalities that does not eliminate anyone’s freedom. Our patron saints followed different paths, had different ideas and at times argued with one another with evangelical frankness. Yet this did not prevent them from living a living communion in the Spirit, a fruitful harmony in diversity.

June 29,2025. Pope Leo XIV on X

Prayer, Quote

Quote for Today Pope Leo XIV

Quote June 30, 2025 Vicki Scheenstra

June 29,2025 Pope Leo XIV on X.

June 29,2025. Pope Leo XIV on X

Faith, Pope Leo XIV, Prayer, Quote

Quote for Today Pope Leo XIV

Unity in the Church and among the Churches is fostered by forgiveness and mutual trust, beginning with our families and communities. If Jesus can trust us, we can certainly trust one another in his name.

June 29,2025 Pope Leo XIV on X.

The history of Peter and Paul shows us that the communion to which the Lord calls us is a unison of voices and personalities that does not eliminate anyone’s freedom. Our patron saints followed different paths, had different ideas and at times argued with one another with evangelical frankness. Yet this did not prevent them from living a living communion in the Spirit, a fruitful harmony in diversity.

June 29,2025. Pope Leo XIV on X

VATICAN CITY, VATICAN – MAY 8: The newly elected Pontiff, Pope Leo XIV is seen for the first time from the Vatican balcony on May 8, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. White smoke was seen over the Vatican early this evening as the Conclave of Cardinals took just two days to elect Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo (Leone) XIV, as the 267th Supreme Pontiff after the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Faith, Quote, Quotes of Saints, Spirituality

Twenty-five Quotes from the Saints about Anger

During chaotic times when we are troubled, we only need to look to the Saints. Their words of wisdom can guide us through rough times. The following quotes are insights into how they delt with anger.

1. Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don’t tame it, it will devastate all things, even corrupting the soul.

St. John Chrysostom.

2. He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice, and if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

3. Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage…Anger at the way things are and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

4. Anger is a weed; hate is a tree.

5. There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

St. Therese of Lisieux

6. When you are angry with someone, the way to find peace is to pray for that person and ask God to reward him or her for making you suffer!

7. He who continues in anger, strife, and a bitter spirit, has a tast of the air of Hell.

St. Philip Neri

8. As long as anger lives, she continues to be the fruitful mother of many unhappy children.

St. John Climacus

9. 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

10. If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at risk of being heroes.

St. Thomas More

11. It is better to cry than to be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

12. Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

St. Basil

13. Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

St. Ignatius of Antioch

14. Where there is schism and anger, there is no place for God.

15. It avails nothing to subdue the body, if the mind allows itself to be controlled by Anger.

Pope Gregory the Great

16. A soul arms itself with prayer for all kinds of combat.

St. Faustina

17. You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

St. Angela Merici

18. When you feel the assault of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His sufferings.

St. Paul of the Cross

19. Virtues are formed by prayer, Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit and raises man to Heaven.

St. Ephrem the Syrian

20. Anger is as a stone into a wasp’s nest.

St. Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI in 1963. Vatican City official photo/Creative Commons

21. No matter what provokes it, anger blinds the soul’s eyes, preventing it from seeing the Son of Righteousness

St John Cassian

22. The memory of insults is the residue of anger.

St. John Climacus

23. Pride is the king of vices. It is the first of pallbearers of the soul…other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity, greed destroys temperance, anger destroys gentleness, but pride destroys all virtue.

Ven. Fulton Sheen

24. It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

25. Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us.

St. John Chrysostom

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Twenty-five Quotes from the Saints about Anger

June 17, 2025 Vicki Scheenstra

During chaotic times when we are troubled, we only need to look to the Saints. Their words of wisdom can guide us through rough times. The following quotes are insights into how they delt with anger.

1. Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don’t tame it, it will devastate all things, even corrupting the soul.

St. John Chrysostom.

2. He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice, and if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

3. Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage…Anger at the way things are and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

4. Anger is a weed; hate is a tree.

5. There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

St. Therese of Lisieux

6. When you are angry with someone, the way to find peace is to pray for that person and ask God to reward him or her for making you suffer!

7. He who continues in anger, strife, and a bitter spirit, has a tast of the air of Hell.

St. Philip Neri

8. As long as anger lives, she continues to be the fruitful mother of many unhappy children.

St. John Climacus

9. 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

10. If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at risk of being heroes.

St. Thomas More

11. It is better to cry than to be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

12. Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

St. Basil

13. Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

St. Ignatius of Antioch

14. Where there is schism and anger, there is no place for God.

15. It avails nothing to subdue the body, if the mind allows itself to be controlled by Anger.

Pope Gregory the Great

16. A soul arms itself with prayer for all kinds of combat.

St. Faustina

17. You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

St. Angela Merici

18. When you feel the assault of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His sufferings.

St. Paul of the Cross

19. Virtues are formed by prayer, Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit and raises man to Heaven.

St. Ephrem the Syrian

20. Anger is as a stone into a wasp’s nest.

St. Pope Paul VI

21. No matter what provokes it, anger blinds the soul’s eyes, preventing it from seeing the Son of Righteousness

St John Cassian

22. The memory of insults is the residue of anger.

St. John Climacus

23. Pride is the king of vices. It is the first of pallbearers of the soul…other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity, greed destroys temperance, anger destroys gentleness, but pride destroys all virtue.

Ven. Fulton Sheen

24. It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

25. Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us.

St. John Chrysostom

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Twenty Five Quotes from the Saints about Joy

Quote June 7, 2025 Vicki Scheenstra

Pentecost is here! We are filled with the spirit of joy. The tradition of the Church lists twelve Fruits of the Holy Spirit.

The fruits of the Holy Spirit are charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, and chastity. Additionally, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord

What words of wisdom have the saints given us about joy?

2. Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I say rejoice!

St. Paul the Apostle

3. Do not abandon yourself to despair. We are the Easter people, and hallelujah is our song.

St John Paul II

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

St. Padre Pio

5. Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.

St. Philip Neri

6. The Lord delights in every little step you take.

7. Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

St. Teresa of Avilla

8. Joy is the simplest form of Gratitude.

9. The joy promised by the Beatitudes is the very Joy of Jesus himself, a joy sought and found in obedience to the Father, and in the gift of self to others.

10. If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts; it is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing.

St. Katharine Drexel

11. God made us for joy. God is joy and the joy of living reflects the ongoing joy that God felt in creating us.

12. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love.
where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope.
where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

13. Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.

St. Teresa of Avila

14. It is characteristic of God and His angels to bring to the soul, when they occupy if, true happiness and spiritual joy; and to drive from it the sadness and trials which the enemy incites in it.

St. Ignatius of Loyla
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15. Let nothing else please us and cause us delight except our Creator Redeemer and Saviour, the only true God.

St. Therese of Lisieux

16. The world promises us pleasure, but it is only in Jeus that we find joy.

17. May we always live joyfully. God is infinite joy.

St. Teresa of the Andes

18. Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life is to be lived, as light to be lit, as love is to be loved, as joy is to be given, as peace, to be spread.

19. Do few things, but do them well, simple joys are holy.

20. No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

St. Peter the Apostle

21 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; That, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding Joyl

St. Peter by Rubens
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22. In the house of God there is a never ending festival; the angel choir make eternal holiday. The presence of God’s face gives joy that never fails.

23. OH, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul’s joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

24. To me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

Therese of Lisieux

25. We who are Christians have a further cause for joy; like Jesus, we know that we are loved by God our Father. This love transforms our lives and fills us with joy!

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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Twenty Five Quotes from the Saints on Faith

Quote May 21, 2025 Vicki Scheenstra

Meditating on the following quotes from the saints

can lead us on our journey of faith.

It is by faith that God dwells in our hearts, in our memory, our intellect and penetrates even into our imagination.

St. Bernard Clairvaux
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2. The Lord is always near to all who call upon his help with sincerity, true faith, sure hope, and perfect love.

St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan

3. The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given to you, what you love, will be yours forever.

St Leo the Great , Bishop of Rome

4. Jesus saved the thief on the holy hill at Golgotha because of one hour’s faith, will he not save you too since you have believed?

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop

5. Faith is to believe what you do not see, the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Augustine of Hippo

6. Faith lifts the soul. Hope supports it. Experience says it must, and love says let it be!

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

7. Faith is a beam radiating from the face of God.

St. John Eudes

8. Live in faith and hope, though it may be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone for that would be to wrong Him.

St. John of the Cross

9. We walk by faith and not by sight.

St. Paul the Apostle

10. The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrifice, and with extreme effort.

Padre Pio

11. Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to heaven.

St. John Climacus.

12. Charity is the seed of faith, makes it alive, without love, faith dies.

St. Anthony of Padua

13. For those with faith, no evidence is necessary, for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

14. May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you.

15. Faith is like a bright ray of sunlight. It enables us to see God in all things, as well as all things in God.

St. Maximus the Confessor

16. Our door is faith. of it is strong enough, the entire house is safe.

St. Ambrose

17. By itself, faith accomplishes nothing, for even the devil believes and trembles. No, faith must be joined to an active love which is expressed in good works.

18, Faith is the light which guides you through the darkness.

Venerable Bishop Sheen

19. Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.

St. Luke the Evangelist

20. Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

St. John Paul II, Bishop of Rome

21. Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, working working for you and calling you to spend one special hour with Hime each week.

St. John Paul II, Bishop of Rome

22. If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness., too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be genuine and loving. Love and faith go together…they complete each other.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

23. Among the many signs of a lively faith is the hope we have in eternal life. One of the secrets is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

24. Your soul must hold fast to Him. You must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His way, by faith, not in outward show.

St. Ambrose

25. Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty.

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Twenty Five Quotes from the Saints on Humility

March 22, 2025 Vicki Scheenstra

1. Once humility is acquired, charity will come to life like a burning flame.

St. Vincent Ferrer

2. As patience leads to piece and study to science,

so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

3. The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is Humility.

St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

4. Humility, humility, and a always humility. Satan fears and trembles before humble souls.

St. Padre Pio

5. If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace,

because you know what you are.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

6. A humble soul does not trust itself, but places all its confidence in God.

St. Faustina

7. It was pride that changed angels into devils; It is humility that makes men as angels.

St. Augustine

8. The truly humble reject all praise for themselves and refer all to Go.

St. Alphonsus Liguori
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9. Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues.

St. Augustine

10. If you elevate yourself, God distances Himself from you.

If you humble yourself, He leans towards you.

St. Augustine

11. Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword, wear humility rather than fine clothes.

St. Dominic

12. Remember that true humility consists in being ready for what the Lord wants to do with you and happy that we should do it, and in considering yourselves unworthy to be called His servants.

St. Teresa of Avila: The Way of Perfection

13. Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul;

it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquility.

St. Teresa of Avila

14. Do not be afraid to be holy. Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since true full Freedom is born from holiness.

St. John Paul II

15. Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him.

The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

Venerable Fulton Sheen

16. The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.

St. Benedict

17. Consider often that it is only the humble of heart who can enter into the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

18. Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

19. Humility means seeing ourselves as God sees us;

knowing every good we have comes from Him as pure gift.

St. Thomas Aquinas

20. From humility of heart proceeds serenity of mind, gentleness of conduct, interior peace and every good.

St. Paul of the Cross

21 Christ the Master of Humility manifest His truth only to the humble

and hides Himself from the proud.

St. Vincent Ferrer

22. Nothing so humbles the proud sinner as the humility of Jesus Christ’s humanity.

St. Anthony of Padua

23. The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey,

and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.

St. Anthony Padua

24. Humility drives Satan away and cherishes the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit within us.

St. Francis de Sales

25. Let all the brothers strive to follow the humility of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

St. Francis of Assisi

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Twenty Five Quotes from the Saints about Truth

1. Anyone who seeks Truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

St. Edith Stein

2. Truth is not private property.

St. Augustine

3. Truth suffers but never dies.

St. Teresa of Avila

4. Proclaim the Truth and do not be silent through fear.

St. Catherine of Siena

4. Proclaim the Truth and do not be silent through fear.

St. Catherine of Siena

5. Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.