Saint Quotes - Page 33

• That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Hero, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Evil, Generations

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.4, CCEL

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• I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Believe, Practice

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• I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.

  Bernhard Langer

  Golf, Upset, Important

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• You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief

  Stephen Kellogg

  Break Up, Ex Boyfriend, Thieves

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• It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Impossible, Aids

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• What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Father, Son

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• We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Success, Christian, Jesus

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• We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand." This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work. In meditation we find the strength to bring Christ to birth in ourselves and in others.

  Carlo Borromeo

  Prayer, Meditation, Overcoming

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• We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Prayer, Communication, Heart

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• Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Prayer, Inspiration, Grace

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• The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she will never become a saint. Let her not delude herself - unless it is the Spirit of God who is speaking through her, for then she must not keep silent. But, in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Religious, Voice, Order

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• You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Good Life, America, Individualism

  Interview with Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin, jacketmagazine.com. April 1958.

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• Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beer, Dragons, Saint George

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2012). “L'osteria volante”, p.116, Bompiani

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• The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Games, Clubs

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.61, Arcade Publishing

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• No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Fire, Church

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• The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

  Ambrose

  Men, Giving, Doe

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• It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

  Francis of Assisi

  Giving, Would Be, Needs

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• If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

  John of the Cross

  Memories, Men, World

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• He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

  John of the Cross

  Opportunity, Men, Hands

  Saint John of the Cross (1966). “The collected works”

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• We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples.

  Francis of Assisi

  Children, Home, Devil

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• We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Sick, Waiting, Comfort

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• I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Suffering, Doe

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• The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

  Philip Neri

  Faith, Inspiration, Wish

  "The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri".

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