30 Quotes by Catherine McAuley

The poor need help today, not next week.

A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.

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

I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.

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

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

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow.

We have one solid comfort our hearts can always be in the same place, centred in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back.