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"We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints."
"For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway."
"The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them."
"Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream."
"Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints."
"C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed."
"Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner."
"When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help."
"A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society."
"All saints have past and all sinners have a future."
"And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
"From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us."
"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."
"Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them."
"Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do."
"My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world."
"We must never underestimate the power of the prayer that is lifted up by wonderful saints all around the world. Prayer is of paramount importance in developing our relationship with our Savior and in building up and supporting others through the work of the Holy Spirit."
"We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us."
"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
"In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks."
