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• The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

  Roger Zelazny

  Men, Sight, Finals

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Secret, Vedas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1589, Manonmani Publishers

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• A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

  Victor Hugo

  Self, Atheism, Advancement

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Stupid, Russia

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mistake, Commitment, Heaven

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• The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Prayer, Ideas

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.66, Discovery House

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• Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Lonely, Loneliness

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• To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, World, May

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heaven, World

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• What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Men, Church

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• Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hero, Tree, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

  Vincent de Paul

  Love, Christian, Neighbor

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• One must see God in everyone.

  Catherine Laboure

  Love, Christian, Catholic

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• Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Prés: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.

  Cyril Connolly

  Country, Nice, Lying

  "The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly, (Part 2), 1951.

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• When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Forests, Said

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.37, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.

  Michael Douglas

  Sex, Mean, Giving

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• No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands,
  I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands,
  suburban places got me seeking for an oasis, cristal by the cases, ladies of all races with dime faces, sex on the white sand beaches of Saint Thomas, though this ain't promised,
  I'm as determined as them old timers.

  Eminem

  Beach, Sex, Cutting

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• Most saints live to regret their career choice.

  Bob Stokes

  Inspirational, Regret, Work

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• We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

  Pope Clement I

  God, Christian, Letting Go

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• A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake."

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Blessed, Buddhism

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• To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Strong, Prayer

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• The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Mean, Soul

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• How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

  Teresa of Avila

  Strong, Prayer, Duty To God

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.49, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Ideas, Imagine

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Flocks, Jacob

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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