Saint Quotes - Page 9

• There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

  Bridget of Sweden

  God, Christian, Recovery

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• You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!

  Bernardino of Siena

  Thinking, Rude, Rosary

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• Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Perseverance, Doe

  "The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales".

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• Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Prayer, Children, Teaching

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• There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Men, Three, Lord

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1985). “St. Bernard's Sermons on the Nativity”

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• Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Angel, Realizing

  "The Way of Perfection".

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• For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, God, Christian

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• These symbolize (Proverbs 30:14) the greedy and usurers whose teeth are swords and knifes which they use to devour the poor and steal their megger possessions. All of them are children of this world who consider the children of light to be stupid and believe themselves to be the prudent ones. Their prudence is their death.

  Anthony of Padua

  Children, Stupid, Believe

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• There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Serving Others, Bigs

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.43, New World Library

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• It is a great art to succeed in having your soul sanctified. A person can become a saint anywhere. He can become a saint in Omonia Square, if he wants. At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with new resolution, with enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence - not with anxiety so that you get a pain in the chest.

  Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia

  Art, Prayer, Pain

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• The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.

  Pope Gregory I

  Real, Angel, Heaven

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• God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

  John of the Cross

  Desire, Degrees, Purity

  "The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross".

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• It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer.... Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.

  St. Vincent

  God, Prayer, Helping Others

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• The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

  Saint Augustine

  Taken, Perfect, Soul

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• The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the more they can help them by their prayers; the more they are united with God, the more effective those prayers are. This is in accordance with Divine order, which makes higher things react upon lower things, like the brightness of the sun filling the atmosphere.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Prayer, Home, Journey

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• No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Purpose, Should, Idle

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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• The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Ungrateful, Taste, Degrees

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• Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

  John Eudes

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational Life, Philosophical, Humility

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• If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Suffering, Causes, Ifs

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• The great thing is to become Saints.

  Philip Neri

  Catholic, Great Things

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.54, St Athanasius Press

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• Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Mother, Roots, Charity

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• This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.

  Pope Clement I

  Two, Enemy, World

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• If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

  Saint Basil

  Wisdom, Men, Leaving

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• A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.

  John Eudes

  Christian, Jesus, Perfect

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