Skip to content

Trinity Sunday: 10 illuminating quotes from the saints about the Holy Trinity

The solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, or Trinity Sunday, is observed on the Sunday after Pentecost. Saints have highlighted the Holy Trinity's greatness, simplicity, and power to transform believers' souls.

The solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, also known as Trinity Sunday, is observed on the Sunday following Pentecost.

Saints over time have commented on the importance of the Holy Trinity, speaking on its greatness, simplicity, and power to transform the souls of believers.

To pay tribute to the Holy Trinity, here are 10 illuminating quotes from the mouths, minds, and hearts of 10 different saints:

  • St. Augustine: “For to have the fruition of God the Trinity, after whose image we are made, is indeed the fullness of our joy, than which there is no greater.”
  • St. Teresa of Ávila: “The three Persons are distinct from one another; a sublime knowledge is infused into the soul, imbuing it with a certainty of the truth that the Three are of one substance, power, and knowledge and are one God.”
  • St. Seraphim of Sarov: “In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, still shines in our hearts with the inextinguishable light of Christ … and when the sinner turns to the way of repentance the light smooths away every trace of the sins committed, clothing the former sinner in the garments of incorruption, spun of the grace of the Holy Spirit. It is this acquisition of the Holy Spirit about which I have been speaking.”
  • St. Patrick (from “St. Patrick’s Breastplate” prayer): “Today I put on a terrible strength invoking the Trinity, confessing the Three with faith in the One as I face my Maker.”
  • St. Catherine of Siena: “O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love … Was it necessary that you should give even the Holy Trinity as food for souls? You gave us not only your Word through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, but you also gave yourself in the fullness of love for your creature.
A statue of the Holy Trinity in Budapest, Hungary. Daniel Ibanez/CNA
A statue of the Holy Trinity in Budapest, Hungary. Daniel Ibanez/CNA
  • St. Thomas Aquinas: “The Father loves not only the Son but also himself and us, by the Holy Ghost.”
  • St. Ambrose: “Rise, you who were lying fast asleep … Rise and hurry to the Church: Here is the Father, here is the Son, here is the Holy Spirit.”
  • St. John Paul II: “A great mystery, a mystery of love, an ineffable mystery, before which words must give way to the silence of wonder and worship. A divine mystery that challenges and involves us, because a share in the Trinitarian life was given to us through grace, through the redemptive Incarnation of the Word and the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
  • St. Faustina: “When One of the Three Persons communicates with a soul, by the power of that one will, it finds itself united with the Three Persons and is inundated in the happiness flowing from the Most Holy Trinity, the same happiness that nourishes the saints. This same happiness that streams from the Most Holy Trinity makes all creation happy; from it springs that life which vivifies and bestows all life which takes its beginning from him.”
  • St. Francis de Sales (from a consecration prayer to the Trinity): “I vow and consecrate to God all that is in me: My memory and my actions to God the Father; My understanding and my words to God the Son; My will and my thoughts to God the Holy Spirit.”
     

Receive the most important news from EWTN Vatican via WhatsApp. It has become increasingly difficult to see Catholic news on social media. Subscribe to our free channel today

Share

Would you like to receive the latest updates on the Pope and the Vatican

Receive articles and updates from our EWTN Newsletter.

More news related to this article

Pope Francis highlights the importance of culture and faith in education during audience with Georgian university delegation

Pope Francis recently met with a delegation from the Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University in Tbilisi, Georgia to highlight the

Pope Francis to palliative care symposium: Euthanasia is a ‘failure of love’

Pope Francis said at an interfaith symposium on palliative care in Toronto that “genuine palliative care is radically different from euthanasia, which is never a source of hope or genuine concern for the sick and dying.”

LIVE | Pope Francis in Hungary | Holy Mass & Regina Coeli Prayer | 30th April 2023

LIVE | Join us LIVE as we witness Pope Francis’ Holy Mass from Kossuth Square in Budapest, followed

The World Needs Families: Declining birth rates in Catholic countries  

Global fertility rates are declining, even in Catholic countries. The 4th "Stati Generali della Natalità" in Rome emphasized investing in youth to combat this trend and support family growth.

53rd International Eucharistic Congress: “Fraternity to Heal the World”

In Ecuador, the first country consecrated to the Sacred Heart

Cardinals Urge Spiritual Renewal at Rome Symposium on the Future of the Church

At the symposium entitled “The Future of the Church - Change or Transform?”, the two cardinals were joined by Professor and priest Fr. Ralph Weimann and Fr. Guido Rodheudt as presenters.

LIVE
FROM THE VATICAN

Be present live on EWTNit