"Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues."
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"The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead."
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"Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."
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""I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?""
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"People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted."
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"You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life."
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"The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven."
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"That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones."
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"His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God."
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"Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God."
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"For me to be a saint means to be myself."
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"Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint."
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"Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars."
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"He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries."
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"It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously."
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"No great saint lived without errors."
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"If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were."
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"Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint."
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"Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation."
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