Saint Quotes - Page 36

• The passion of Jesus is a sea of sorrows, but it is also an ocean of love. Ask the Lord to teach you to fish in this ocean. Dive into its depths. No matter how deep you go, you will never reach the bottom.

  Paul of the Cross

  Jesus, Ocean, Passion

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• Make a bouquet of the sufferings of Jesus and carry it in the bosom of his soul.

  Paul of the Cross

  Jesus, Soul, Suffering

  "Words from the heart: a selection from the personal letters of Saint Paul of the Cross".

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• Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

  Paul of the Cross

  Flower, Artist, Sky

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• Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another's defects.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Men, Charity, Unions

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• There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Men, Way, Faults

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• He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

  Philip Neri

  Love, God, Christian

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• Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

  Philip Neri

  Men, Giving, World

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• Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Truth Is, Obedience

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• Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Generations

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• God asks little, but He gives much.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Giving, Littles, Asks

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• The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible.

  Gerard Majella

  Blessed, Sick, Christ

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• I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ.

  Gerard Majella

  Jesus, Christ, Neighbor

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• If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.

  Pope Gregory I

  Deeds, Today, Facts

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• Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Past

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• All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Christian, Holiness, May

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• Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

  Francis of Assisi

  Jesus, Justice, Inheritance

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• Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life to be lived, as light to be lit, as love is to be loved, as joy to be given, as peace to be spread.

  Francis of Assisi

  Jesus, Love Is, Light

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• If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.

  Carlo Borromeo

  Views, Honor, Wish

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• Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  God, Christian, Eye

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• God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Needs, Poor

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• What do you possess if you possess not God?

  Saint Augustine

  Ifs

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• This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Desire, May, Moments

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• He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Trust In God, Lost, All Things

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• You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.

  John Vianney

  World

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• Preach always. Use words if necessary.

  Francis of Assisi

  Use, Ifs

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