Inspiring Quotes

There are hundreds of inspiring and powerful quotes by Popes, Saints and other holy witnesses to Christ.  Below are just a few from Christian witnesses from past and modern times:  Most were sourced from Fr. Donald Calloway’s, excellent book, “The Champions of the Rosary.” 

“Pray the rosary everyday.” Mother Teresa of Calcutta 

“To become perfect, say a rosary a day.” St. Louis de Montfort

“I urge you to recite the Rosary every day, abandoning yourselves with trust in Mary’s hands” Pope Benedict XVI

“Love the Blessed Mother…Always say the rosary.” St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcia 

“Confidently take up the rosary once again. Rediscover the rosary in light of Scripture… in the context of your daily lives. May this appeal of mine not go unheard.” St. John Paul II  

“All well intentioned people can and should recite the five decades of the rosary every day.  The rosary should constitute each person’s spiritual food.” Sr. Lucia Dos Santos 1907-2005, longest living visionary from Fatima in 1925

“Our Lady insists that we pray the rosary every day because she knows our inconstancy, our weakness and our need.”  Sr. Lucia Dos Santos

“When our Blessed Lady gave the holy rosary to Saint Dominic she ordered him to say it every day and to get others to say it daily.” St. Louis de Montfort

“The power of the rosary is beyond description.”  Venerable Fulton Sheen 

“The single richest treasure in the Vatican is the rosary.” Blessed Pope Pius IX 

“When you look at the rosary in your hand it appears very simple, that little string of beads yet… You hold the power to change your lives.” Venerable Patrick Peyton

“The rosary, which the Church so highly recommends, is not only the font of many graces for the living, but also a most powerful means of aiding the dead.” Blessed James Alberione  

“The rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual in that order.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen 

“The Rosary is my favorite prayer.” St. John Paul II The Great 

“It would be impossible to name all the saints who discovered in the rosary a genuine path to growth in holiness.” Padre Pio 

“Saint Pius V one the greatest Popes who ever ruled the Church, said the rosary every day.”  St Louis de Montefort

“The Rosary is a prayer which always accompanies me. It’s also the prayer of ordinary people and the saints...and a prayer from my heart.” Pope Francis (Source: twitter) 

“The rosary is an easy, powerful and common devotion.” Blessed James Alberione 

“There is no devotion so generally practiced by the faithful of all classes as that of the rosary.” St Alphonsus Liguori 

“The rosary belongs among the finest and most praiseworthy traditions of Christian contemplation.” St John Paul II 

The prayer of the rosary is, in many ways, the synthesis of the history of God's mercy… Through prayer and meditation on the life of Jesus Christ, we see once more His merciful countenance, which he shows to everyone in all the many needs of life.” Pope Francis 

“In the rosary, we not only say prayers, we think them.” Venerable Fulton Sheen 

“Take up the rosary, one of the most deeply rooted of the Christian devotions. The Church encourages us to contemplate its mysteries.” St. Josemaria Escriva 

“Because the rosary is both mental and vocal prayer, it is one where intellectual elephants may bathe, and the simple birds may also sip.” Venerable Fulton Sheen 

“The essence of the rosary is the contemplating the mysteries of the life of Christ the Lord and the most holy Mother of God.” St. Maximilian Kolbe 

“The rosary is a devotion that, through the Blessed Mother, leads us to Jesus. St Pope Paul VI 

“The rosary is the prayer which God, through his Church and Our Lady, has recommended most insistently to us all, as a road to and gateway to salvation.” Sr. Lucia Dos Santos,

“Every word of the Rosary is a prayer to God.” Frank Duff 

"A person who was leading an immoral life had not the courage to give it up; he began to say the rosary and was converted.”  St Alphonsus Ligouri 

“The rosary is a spiritual weapon in the battle against evil, against all violence for peace in hearts, in families, in society and in the world.” Pope Benedict XVI 

“Love the Madonna and pray the rosary, for her rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today.” Padre Pio 

“Those who pray do more for the benefit of the whole human race than all the orators and deputies, more than all the organizers, secretaries and writers more than all the capitalists even if they would make their entire wealth available to the Church” Joseph Kentenich 

“The great remedy of modern times which will influence the events of the world more than all diplomatic endeavors…is the rosary.” Joseph Kentenich