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“If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Children Quotes
#People Quotes
#Parent Quotes
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“The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Humble Quotes
#Heaven Quotes
#Lows Quotes
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“Live simply, so that all may simply live.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#May Quotes
#Live Simply Quotes
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“I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
Source : Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (2000). “Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Woman of Prayer : Meditations, Reflections, Prayers, and Poems Taken from Her Writings”, University Press of Amer
#Catholic Quotes
#Important Quotes
#Church Quotes
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“Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Mind Quotes
#Cheerfulness Quotes
#Glorious Quotes
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“We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Prayer Quotes
#Communication Quotes
#Heart Quotes
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“Faith lifts the soul, Hope supports it, Experience says it must and Love says...let it be!.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Support Quotes
#Soul Quotes
#And Love Quotes
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“Afflictions are the steps to heaven.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Adversity Quotes
#Heaven Quotes
#Affliction Quotes
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“The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#God Quotes
#Glasses Quotes
#Soul Quotes
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“Can you expect to go to heaven for nothing? Did not our Savior track the whole way to it with His tears and blood? And yet you stop at every little pain.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Pain Quotes
#Blood Quotes
#Track Quotes
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“The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Saint Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
#Ends Quotes
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“God is everywhere, in the very air I breathe, yes everywhere, but in His Sacrament of the Altar He is as present actually and really as my soul within my body; in His Sacrifice daily offered as really as once offered on the Cross”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Sacrifice Quotes
#Air Quotes
#Soul Quotes
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“Be attentive to the voice of grace.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Faith Quotes
#Inspiration Quotes
#Voice Quotes
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“Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Family Quotes
#Results Quotes
#Disorder Quotes
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“When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Hands Quotes
#Use Quotes
#Rich Quotes
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“How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Sweet Quotes
#Jesus Quotes
#Soul Quotes
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“We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Giving Quotes
#Grace Quotes
#Able Quotes
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“Our Lord Himself I saw in this venerable Sacrament . . . I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter at the touch of the Divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul!”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Soul Quotes
#Messengers Quotes
#Saws Quotes
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“We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Ocean Quotes
#Suffering Quotes
#Moments Quotes
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“The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom.”
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
#Water Quotes
#Soul Quotes
#Saint Quotes
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