Consecrated Life Quotes:

Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Jesus, Heart, Mean, Consecrated Life

They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

- Pope Francis

topic: Men, Temptation, World, Consecrated Life

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Prayer, Spring, Silence, Faith Hope Love, Hope Love

True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

- D. Todd Christofferson

topic: Destiny, Choices, Purpose, Consecrated Life, Consecration

May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives.

- Pope Francis

topic: Jesus, World, May, Consecrated Life

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Doe, Want, Intention, Consecrated Life

Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.

- D. Todd Christofferson

topic: Character, Self Worth, Order, Repetitive, Consecrated Life

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Belief, Embers, Blazing, Bonfire, Consecrated Life