QUOTATION: Prayer and Penance

It is impossible to find a Saint who did not take the “two P’s” seriously: prayer and penance.

--St.Francis Xavier

QUOTATION: Why God Allows Bad Things to Happen

But God in His good Providence allows so many terrors, sorrows, and dangers to be put in our way by our enemy that He may break down our spirit, give us lowly hearts, and train us to submissiveness of mind and humility, so that we may never in the future feel any trust in our own prudence, but all entire trust in His Divine Protection.

--St. Francis Xavier

QUOTATION: Evangelization

Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.

-- St. Francis Xavier

QUOTATION: The Spirit of Faith

It is not the actual physical exertion that counts toward a man's progress, nor the nature of the task, but the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken.

--St. Francis Xavier