Saint Quotes - Page 33

• Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

  Colin S. Smith

  Augustine, Used, Should

  Colin S. Smith (2016). “The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life: Finding Freedom in God's Commands”, p.24, Moody Publishers

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• Pray to Saint Philomena, What ever you ask from her, She will obtain for you.

  Pope Gregory XVI

  Praying, Asks

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• Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Wall, Night, What Matters

  Adriana Trigiani (2005). “Rococo: A Novel”, p.253, Random House

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• We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence of pure divinity right here on earth, but also of our own potential, and of the responsibility we have to try to live up to it, for our own sakes and for the very future of this planet.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Responsibility

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• Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

  Simone Weil

  Live In The Moment, Today, Moments

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.28, Routledge

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• You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

  Angela Merici

  Motivation, Kind, Used

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• Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them.

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Harm

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• A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

  Vavasor Powell

  Prayer

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• My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

  David Maraniss

  Philosophy, Humans, Human Beings

  Interview with Carlos J. Queirós, www.aarp.org. April 2006.

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• Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Inspirational, Sainthood, Acceptable

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

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• There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Quality, Moral, Artistic

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

  Alan Redpath

  Miracle, Soul, Tasks

  Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.6, Baker Books

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• We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

  Teresa of Avila

  Wings, Needs, Looks

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.114, A&C Black

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• When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Please Me, Grace

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• Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint.

  Zach Braff

  Regret, Thinking, Catholic

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• I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

  Elizabeth Barton

  Communication, Angel, Satan

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• Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Missionary, Lasts, Spirit

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• The dangers that exist are real, but only illustrate the fact that men and women need Christ. The suffering and dying of missionaries advance the Kingdom as nothing else could and the blood of the saints has ever been the seed and fuel of gospel advance.

  David Sills

  Real, Men, Blood

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• Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed to the whim of pleasure or fancy, and before which must bow the fleeting omnipotence of fashion. These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Fashion, Law

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• We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Teamwork, Effort, Louisiana

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• These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Church, Principles

  "The Pope Speaks: The Teachings of Pope Pius XII".

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• Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

  Walter Scott

  Dragons, Saint George, Castles

  Walter Scott (2016). “Ivanhoe, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.1”, p.297, VM eBooks

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• The unbreakable bond between love of God and love of neighbor is emphasized. One is so closely connected to the other that to say that we love God becomes a lie if we are closed to our neighbor or hate him altogether. Saint John's words should rather be interpreted to mean that love of neighbor is a path that leads to the encounter with God, and that closing our eyes to our neighbor also blinds us to God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Hate, Lying, Mean

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• I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Catholic, Important, Church

  Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (2000). “Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Woman of Prayer : Meditations, Reflections, Prayers, and Poems Taken from Her Writings”, University Press of Amer

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• Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.

  Pope Gregory I

  Wish, Firsts, Action

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