Inspiring Saint Quotes for the New Year

With God, you can begin again

“Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.” - Saint Jerome

“Don’t despair over your shortcomings. Start over each day. You make spiritual progress by beginning again and again.” by Saint Francis de Sales

“Start being brave about everything, driving out darkness and spreading light as well. Don’t look at your weakness, but realize that in Christ crucified you can do everything.”– St. Catherine of Siena

“Begin now … Believe me, don’t wait until tomorrow to begin becoming a saint.” - Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

“He who climbs never stops going from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end. He never stops desiring what he already knows.” - Saint Gregory of Nissa

“Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.” – St Francis de Sales

“If you should fail, be humble, make a resolution to be submissive to God’s will and then get up, and carry on.” - Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.” - Saint Francis de Sales

"Do not let the past disturb you—just leave everything in the Sacred Heart, and begin again with joy.” -Saint Teresa of Calcutta

“Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.” - Saint Augustine

“Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God’s will.” - Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne

“The saints did not all begin well, but they all ended well.” - Saint John Vianney

“Always we begin again.” - Saint Benedict

“You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.” - Saint Augustine

“If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness.”– St. Charles Borromeo

“When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.” - Saint John Chrysostom

“With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.” Servant of God Catherine Doherty

“Everyday I say to myself, today I will begin.” by Saint Anthony of the Desert

“In difficult moments I will fix my gaze upon the silent heart of Jesus, stretched upon the cross, and from the exploding flames of His merciful Heart, will flow down upon me power and strength to keep fighting.”– St. Faustina

“In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave your heart. And that you may obtain the assistance of her prayer, neglect not to walk in her footsteps. With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall, under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.”
– St. Bernard of Clairvaux

“Just one thing: forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead, I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize of God’s upward calling, in Christ Jesus.” - Philippians 3:13-14 (NABRE)

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