Saint Quotes - Page 11

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  We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Christian, Wisdom

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.213, Image

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• The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Aunt, Sense Of Humor, Kind

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2007). “The Office of Peter and the Structure of the Church, 2nd Edition”, p.184, Ignatius Press

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• Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' —many things —
  the tree, the dog, the sky, the flowers, even the color of someone’s clothing.
  You see, when you love, you love, and love extends to everything all the time and everywhere.

  Richard Rohr

  Dog, Flower, Love You

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• The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

  Felix Adler

  Being Yourself, Hero, Dark

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• Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Christian, Thinking, Flames

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• And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by force, by violence. There is no way to control and discipline it. The people who have tried to control and discipline it have made the world very pornographic. Your so-called saints have a very pornographic mind. If a window can be created and a hole can be made in their heads, you will be able to see just sex, pornography. it is bound to be so. It is natural.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Discipline, People

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• The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Acceptance, Men

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.461, Editora Dracaena

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• The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? Is it the fault of the merciful Father, whose wind of mercy is blowing without ceasing, day and night, whose mercy knows no decay, is it His fault that some of us are happy and some unhappy? We make our own destiny. His sun shines for the weak as well as for the strong. His wind blows for saint and sinner alike. He is the Lord of all, the Father of all, merciful, and impartial.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Father, Blow

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.671, Manonmani Publishers

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• The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Artist, Order, Essence

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• A good life with contentment is itself a great wealth. For we brought nothing with us into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. So if we have enough of what we need, let us be content with that.

  Saint Timothy

  Inspirational, Life, Contentment

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• A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

  Brennan Manning

  Goodness, Goodness Of God, Ragamuffin Gospel

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

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• Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears, declaring openly to Christ your thoughts and deeds, so that you may be justified.

  Andrew of Crete

  Religious, Jesus, Rain

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• I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Faith, Religious, Jesus

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• It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.

  Katharine Drexel

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  God, Faith, Religious

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love, Moving On, Heart

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• It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.

  Alphonsus Rodriguez

  Teaching, Mean, Eye

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• Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.

  Albertus Magnus

  Nature, Clever, Women

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• If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone... we must be compassionate!

  Josephine Bakhita

  Love, God, Christian

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• Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.

  Paulinus of Nola

  God, Faith, Religious

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• As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Mean, Long, Doe

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• To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

  Pope Francis

  Privilege, Vocation

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• It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.

  Michelangelo

  Wise, Thinking, Inspire

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• The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

  George Jones

  Different, Forgiven, Sinner

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