Bridget of Sweden Quotes

Sweden, Saint
1303 – July, 23, 1373.

Bridget of Sweden was a mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettines nuns and monks after the death of her husband of twenty years. Outside of Sweden, she was also known as the Princess of Nericia and was the mother of Catherine of Vadstena. (Though normally named as Bridget of Sweden, she was not a member of Swedish royalty.)

The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.

Bridget of Sweden
- Justice
- Charity
- Source
O Mary, you give assistance to everyone endeavoring to rise to God!

Bridget of Sweden
- God
- Assistance
- Mary

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

Bridget of Sweden
- World
- God
- Sinner
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Bridget of Sweden
- Live
- Speak
- Write
Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without any fear, by dishonoring him through sin that they could abstain from, if they wanted. But they neither abstain from sin nor are they ashamed of their already committed sins, for they do not take into consideration their unworthiness of the kindness of the one whom they do not serve.

Bridget of Sweden
- Fear
- Invention
- Petition
Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

Bridget of Sweden
- Grace
- Negligent
The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

Bridget of Sweden
- World
- Peace
- Politics
Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.

Bridget of Sweden
- God
- Fear
- Creatures