Saint Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• The Rosary is THE weapon.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Christian, Rosary, Weapons

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• It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

  Teresa of Avila

  Law, Folly, Willing

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• The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Bible, Religious, Peace

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• "Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, How To Love, Augustine

  St Alphonsus Liguori (2009). “Dignity and Duties of the Priest Or Selva”, p.291, St Athanasius Press

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• We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Greatness, Knows

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• Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.

  John Climacus

  Lying, Wine, Able

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• It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Cooking, Buying

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• A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Soul, Desire

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• If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Sin, Confession, Made

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• In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Rain, Wind, Soul

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “Uniformity with God's Will”, p.9, TAN Books

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• However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Jesus, Suffering, Littles

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