Like many a youngster, Dominic Savio was aware that he was different from his peers. He tried to keep his piety from his friends lest he have to endure their laughter. Even after his death, his youth marked him as a misfit among the saints and some argued that he was too young to be canonized. Pope Pius X wisely disagreed. For no one is too young—or too old or too anything else—to achieve the holiness to which we all are called. Here are some quotes by the saint who has the patronage of Choir boys.
“I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.”
“If I can succeed in saving only a single soul I can be sure that my own will be saved.”
“Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can.”
“I can’t do big things, but I want everything to be for the glory of God.”
“I need nothing in this world in order to be happy. I only need to see Jesus in heaven, Whom I now see and adore on the altar with the eyes of faith.”
“Mary, I give you my heart. Always keep it yours. Jesus, Mary, always be my friends. I beg you, let me die rather than be so unfortunate as to commit a single sin.”
“Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him.”