Saint Quotes - Page 15

• Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit of Him.

  Mark Hart

  Jesus, Pursuit

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• Great saints are never wimps.

  Peter Kreeft

  Wimps

  Peter Kreeft (2010). “Between Allah & Jesus: What Christians Can Learn from Muslims”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

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• Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

  Peter Kreeft

  Men, Tough, Christ

  Peter Kreeft (2010). “Between Allah & Jesus: What Christians Can Learn from Muslims”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

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• To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Persevere

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• If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

  Peter Kreeft

  Rain, Want, Hanging Out

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• Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

  Mark Hart

  Giving, Ruins, Permission

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• God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

  Mark Hart

  Mean, Creative, Needs

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• You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.

  Mark Hart

  Compare, Comparing Yourself, Sinner

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.23, Franciscan Media

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• Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.

  Mother Angelica

  Men, Names, Degrees

  "Mother Angelica Live". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com.

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• To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?

  Josemaria Escriva

  Snow, Ponds, Done

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• Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bridges, Helping, Holy

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• Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

  Saadi

  Famous Last Words, Sanctity, Shows

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• Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, People, Insane

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• From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord.

  Teresa Giudice

  Serious, Sullen, Lord

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• God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Lonely, Hero

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• Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

  William Osler

  Humanity, Library, Half

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.209, Ravenio Books

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• Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Conversations With God, Psalms, Feels

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• Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mean, People, Eva Peron

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• Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Mind, Wish, Firsts

  Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.350, Aeterna Press

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• Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing, and yet it was difficult to notice and be grateful when one was continually fatigued and irritated. I suppose that unquenchable sense of wonder is what separates us dolts from the saints and the poets.

  Jane Hamilton

  Grateful, Knowing, Miracle

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• Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Scum Of The Earth, May, Emergencies

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.26, Penguin

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• Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

  George Orwell

  Tests, Guilty, Innocent

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”

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• When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there was a hierarchy of being. If you look at Thomas Aquinas, for example, you have hierarchies of angels and all the rest of it, and hierarchies even of saints and then subsaints - people who aren't quite there, that sort of thing. The Reformation rejected all of that and created a new metaphysics, in effect, that is not hierarchical.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Angel, People, Example

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In 1989 at Greater Saint Steven Full Gospel Church, I gave my life to Christ. That's pretty much where it all started for me. I was 23 years old at the time, right after my first year in the NBA. The pastor preached a message about being fully committed. That pretty much was me. I wasn't fully committed. I was kind of in and out all of the time. So I just wanted to make a commitment.

  Avery Johnson

  Commitment, Past, Years

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

  Blaise Pascal

  Silence, Silent, Persecution

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