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"A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love."
"Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you."
"A saint is a sinner who never gave up."
"Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views."
"Truth suffers, but never dies."
"Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him."
"Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went."
"It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them."
"You will not become a saint through other people's sins."
"You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him."
"EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some."
"The Gucci woman - you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman - she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first."
"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"
"We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise."
"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."
"I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah."
"Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)"
"There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things."
"Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace."
"The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification."
