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"Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss."
"The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914."
"Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God."
"How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer."
"My father was a saint. I'm not."
"Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint."
"The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own."
"What do you possess if you possess not God?"
"Mount Calvary is the academy of love."
"If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!"
"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
"The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center."
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
"I'm no saint but I do believe in what is right."
"The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example."
"Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint."
"You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers."
"Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these."
"Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ."
"Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus."
