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• Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one.

  Rumi

  Soul, Way, Prophet

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• It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues.

  John Flavel

  Wise, Religious, Blessed

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls.

  George Harrison

  God, Soul, Age

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• Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others may think - but to me it does seem clear that Heaven would be a miserable place to an unholy man. It cannot be otherwise. People may say in a vague way, that they "hope to go to Heaven, but they do not consider what they say. There must be a certain "fitness for the inheritance of the saints in light.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Thinking, Light

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• All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Religion, Atheism

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.

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• Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

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• Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Yves Saint-LaurentThe most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world. - Alicia KeysIt's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Shoes, Clothes

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• Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Easter, Voice

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.127, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip; Our grief over those who have gone on is diminished; Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is rejuvenated... Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Easter, Grief

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• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in which He performed His mission in the flesh was sired by that some Holy Being we worship as God, our Eternal Father. Jesus was not the son of Joseph, nor was He begotten by the Holy Ghost.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

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• Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take the form of religion, but the politics is there. Then you are competing with other saints.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Roots, Political

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• The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face of God, who is Love. To you young people, who are in search of a firm hope, I address the very words that Saint Paul wrote to the persecuted Christians in Rome at that time: "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" (Rom 15:13).

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Believe, Rome

  Message for World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. February 22, 2009.

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• The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness.

  Rajneesh

  Keys, Heaven, Secret

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• St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

  Charles Madigan

  Beer, Opportunity, Acting

  "Patrick,we Hardly Knew Ye". articles.chicagotribune.com. March 14, 1997.

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• Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

  Anne Catherine Emmerich

  Heart, Men, Charity

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• My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings.

  Isaac Jogues

  Faith, Inspiration, Giving

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• He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

  Venerable Bede

  Love, Faith, Christian

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• Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.

  Peter of Alcantara

  Reform, World, Matter

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• Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Should Have, Rooms, Welcome

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• The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Effort

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• I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Be Kind, Serving Others, Claret

  St. Anthony Mary Claret “The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret”, TAN Books

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• True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Suffering, Weakness, Charity

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• When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.

  William Lacy Clay, Jr.

  Book, Kids, School

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• When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.

  Ostad Elahi

  Religious, Prophet, Stage

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