Saint Francis de Sales
Saint, Bishop
"What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience."
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Mother Angelica
Nun, Television Personality
"We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future."
Vincent de Paul
Saint, Priest
"We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love."
Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"May God protect me from gloomy saints."
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"And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God."
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"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."
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"If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything."
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"Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint."
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"It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially."
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"Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell."
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"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."
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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."
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"Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day."
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"When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!""
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"It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig."
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"Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!"
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"Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them."
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"I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous."
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"There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world."
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"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society."
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"Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint."
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"One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion."
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"I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share."
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"We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate."
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