Saint Quotes - Page 13

• Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

  John Milton

  Saws, Late

  c.1658 Sonnets, no.19,'Methought I Saw'.

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• I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

  Fiona Apple

  Reality, Want, Patron

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ.

  Frank E. Gaebelein

  Christian, Antichrist, Christian Inspirational

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• A little saint best fits a little shrine,
  A little prop best fits a little vine,
  As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Vines, Shrines

  'A Ternary of Littles, upon a Pipkin of Jelly sent to a Lady'

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• To be a saint is to will the one thing.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  One Thing

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• Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Heaven, Faithful, Earth

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• The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of the truth. It teaches those too much concerned with a life in the flesh to deepen themselves through such sufferings instead of pursuing ease and comfort; and it makes the flesh's natural weakness in the endurance of suffering a foundation for overwhelming spiritual power. For the natural weakness of the saints is precisely such a foundation, since the Lord has made their weakness stronger than the proud devil.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Evil

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• Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ.  This is who we are.  This is our identity.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Children, Identity

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• In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Order, Soul, Suffering

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• In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

  Syncletica of Alexandria

  Powerful, Passion, Medicine

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• When later he [St. Joseph] carried the Child in his arms, acts of loving faith welled up constantly in his heart. It was a worship that pleased our Lord more than that which he receives in heaven. Picture to yourself Saint Joseph, adoring the little Child in his arms as his God. He tells of his readiness to die for Christ, of all his plans to promote Christ's glory, and to win more souls to his love. No lover builds more scintillating plans for his loved one than a saint.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Children, Heart, Winning

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• This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Hate, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.253, Рипол Классик

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• A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control of the water. A swimmer moves around willfully. An absorbed being has no will but the water's going. Any word or act is not really personal, but the way the water has of speaking or doing. As when you hear a voice coming out of a wall, and you know that it's not the wall talking, but someone inside, or perhaps someone outside echoing off the wall. Saints are like that. They've achieved the condition of a wall, or a door.

  Rumi

  Wall, Moving, Men

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• It is true to say that for me sanctity consists in being myself and for you sanctity consists of being yourself and that, in the last analysis, your sanctity will never be mine and mine will never be yours, except in the communism of charity and grace. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

  Thomas Merton

  Being Yourself, Mean, Who I Am

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• To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.

  Chris Matthews

  Years, Names, Miracle

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.

  William Shakespeare

  Valentines Day, Maids, Valentine's Day

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Alexander Pope (1803). “Hamlet. Cymbeline”, p.281

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• When I was about 16, I did a Neil LaBute play called 'A Gaggle of Saints' from a collection of plays called 'Bash' - very violent story about a young Mormon who goes to Central Park with his friend and beats up a gay guy. But it was the first thing I had ever done, and I thought, "God, this is fun! This is far more fun than anything else I've been doing at school. I want to stick with it."

  Max Irons

  Fun, School, Gay

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

  Charles Colson

  Jobs, Church, World

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• Everybody is called to become a saint. Not everybody's gonna be canonized by the Church...The only thing about being canonized is you're already dead so you don't even get to go to the party.

  Lino Rulli

  Party, Church

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I don't know any saint who wanted to be the patron saint of kissing.

  Lino Rulli

  Kissing, Wanted, Knows

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived very quiet lives. Maybe we don't know a lot about a lot them but what I'm saying is the saints of the 21st century are gonna be regular people - people who've kissed other people. They're gonna be married people.

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, People, Married

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

  Suge Knight

  Thinking, Bully, Weak

  "Suge Knight Talks About Freedom, Tha Row And Who Killed Tupac". Interview with Chris Connelly, www.mtv.com. August 9, 2001.

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• The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.

  Brooke Westcott

  Men, Perfection, Faults

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• Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

  Peter Kreeft

  World, Sin, Save The World

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• What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death.

  Mark Hart

  Common, Sin

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.8, Franciscan Media

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