Saint Quotes - Page 7

• A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

  Anthony the Great

  Religious, Time, Crazy

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• True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Goes On, Charity

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• Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

  Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

  Inspirational, Wise, Courage

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• Chosen soul, how will you bring this about? What steps will you take to reach the high level to which God is calling you? The means of holiness and salvation are known to everybody, since they are found in the Gospel; the masters of the spiritual life have explained them; the Saints have practiced them...These means are: sincere humility, unceasing prayer, complete self-denial, abandonment to Divine Providence, and obedience to the will of God.

  Louis de Montfort

  Spiritual, Prayer, Mean

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• How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

  Elizabeth of Hungary

  God, Spiritual, Humility

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• The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

  Philip Neri

  Spiritual, Firsts, Poor

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.15, St Athanasius Press

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• Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.

  Anthony of Padua

  Religious, Eye, Bird

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• True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Regret, Past, Penance

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• The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

  Charles Stanley

  Patience, Biblical, Years

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• Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.

  Mother Teresa

  Encouragement, Failure, Community

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.45, New World Library

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• The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

  Pope Leo I

  Jesus, Children, Men

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• The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.

  Paul of the Cross

  Paradise, Way, Crosses

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• My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength.... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Hands, Spirit, Lord

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• He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Faith, Inspiration, Rose

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• Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Losing A Loved One, Angel, Spirit

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• Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize that you are nothing. This feeling of self-importance is deeply hidden, but it controls the whole of our life. Its first demand is that everything should be as we wish it, and as soon as this is not so we complain to God and are annoyed with people.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Love, Life, God

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• We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Love, God, Faith

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (2007). “Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux”, Vintage

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• The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

  Pope Gregory I

  Greatness, Contemplation, Given

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• It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Praying, Blasphemy, Ifs

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• You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

  Anatole France

  Love, Relationship, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Suffering, Desire

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• The real work is in the Heart:
  Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
  Then it needs no Friend.

  Rabia Basri

  Inspirational, Friends, Wise

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• The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Suffering, Danger

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

  John the Baptist

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Catholic, Rosary, Praying

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