Catherine McAuley

“The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.”

“Hurrah for foundations! It is a special Mercy of God to be made the foundation of a good work.”

“The poor need help today not next week.”

“The simplest and most practical lesson I know...is to be good today, but better tomorrow.”

“We should be as shining lamps, giving light to all around us.”

“There is nothing of greater importance than the care of the sick.”

“Our charity must be in our hearts and from our hearts, and a charity such as Jesus Christ practiced.”

“You must be cheerful and happy, animating all around you.”

“No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.”

“Let us take one day only in hands, at a time, merely making a resolve for tomorrow, but carrying out that of today.”

“If we are humble and sincere, God will finish in us the work He has begun.”

“Prayer will do more than all the money in the Bank of Ireland.”

“We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God.”

“While we place all our confidence in God, we must act as if all depended on our own exertion.”

“The Lord and Master of our House and Home is the poor.”

“Be ever ready to praise, to encourage, to stimulate, but slow to censure, and still more slow to condemn.”

“My legacy to the Institute is charity.”

“A good beginning is of great importance.”

“Put your whole confidence in God.”