Saint Quotes - Page 12

• It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead.

  Mark Hart

  Culture

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• You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Forgiving, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Two, Monsters, Stories

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• Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Grace, Sin, Hell

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• A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sports, Tyrants, Pharisees

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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• Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious

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• 'Eat my flesh,' Jesus says, 'and drink my blood.' The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh and pours out his blood, and nothing is lacking for the growth of his children

  Clement of Alexandria

  Jesus, Children, Blood

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• We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

  Teresa of Avila

  Religious, Catholic, Suffering

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.345, A&C Black

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• Celebrate the feast of Christmas every day, even every moment in the interior temple of your spirit, remaining like a baby in the bosom of the heavenly Father, where you will be reborn each moment in the Divine Word, Jesus Christ.

  Paul of the Cross

  Faith, Baby, Jesus

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• Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone. I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil.

  Agatha of Sicily

  Jesus, Heart, Sheep

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• O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Addresses, Lips, Should

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• In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Humility, Mercy Of God

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

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• Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. I understood that there were many kinds of of sanctity and that each soul was free to respond to the approaches of Our Lord and to do little or much for Him - in other words,to make a choice among the sacrifices He demands.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Sacrifice, Perfection, Choices

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• The Saints in Heaven through the Holy Spirit behold the glory of God and the beauty of the Lord's Countenance. But in this same Holy Spirit they see our lives too, and our deeds. They know our sorrows and hear our burning prayers. When they were living on earth they learned of the love of God from the Holy Spirit; and he who knows love on earth takes it with him into eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven, where love grows and becomes perfect. And if love makes one unable to forget a brother here, how much more must the Saints remember and pray for us!

  Silouan the Athonite

  Brother, Prayer, Perfect

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• From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

  Teresa of Avila

  Silly, Devotion, Lord

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• If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.

  Rose of Lima

  Beautiful, Men, Joy

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• All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Cheer Up, Positive Thinking

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• Must, bid the Morn awake!
  Sad Winter now declines,
  Each bird doth choose a mate;
  This day's Saint Valentine's.
  For that good bishop's sake
  Get up and let us see
  What beauty it shall be
  That Fortune us assigns.

  Michael Drayton

  Valentines Day, Winter, Bird

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• There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Icons, Grace

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• There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what our Church teaches... We are living in a world saturated with all kinds of voices. Perhaps now, more than ever, we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Responsibility, Lds, Voice

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• Christ is the Morning Star,
  who, when the night of this world is past,
  gives to his saints the promise of the light of life,
  and opens everlasting day.

  Venerable Bede

  Morning, Stars, Past

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• Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Blessed, Passion, Heart

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• Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over
  and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Strong, Watches

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.63, BookBaby

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• Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.

  Teresa of Avila

  Jesus, Heart, Names

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• She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Autumn, Winter, Wind

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