Quotes About Saints

The people didn't really want to be saints of self-deprivation and hatred of the world. They knew that the world would sooner or later deprive them of all it had given them, but still they liked it.

Porque nadie puede caminar simultáneamente en todas las direcciones del amor otorgado a los santos: mientras uno investiga la altura, otro se sumerge en la profundidad y un tercero explora la anchura. Nadie puede elevarse por sí solo hasta la posición del Espíritu, del Hijo, del Padre: sólo la Iglesia como totalidad es la esposa de Cristo, y ello únicamente en la medida en que es el recipiente moldeado por Él para acoger su plenitud.

It is by conquering temptation that we acquire merit before God. It is through temptation, met and defeated, that we grow in holiness. There would be little credit in being good if it were easy to be good. The great saints were not men and women who had no temptations; in most cases, they were men and women who had tremendous temptations—and became saints by their victories. We shall not,

FOLK SAYINGS: "Nine wise men don't make a minyan, but ten cobblers do." "Nine saints do not make a minyan, but one ordinary man can by joining them.

I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever. I will praise You forever, because You have done it; And in the presence of Your saints I will wait on Your name, for it is good.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

Most saints live to regret their career choice.

I can't work in a house where there's saints. The minute there's saints, the devil sends messengers

A university degree, in any case, is not remotely related to Vedic realization. Saints are not produced in batches every semester like accountants." After

Worldly people do not like the candour which shatters their delusions. Saints are not only rare but disconcerting. Even in scripture, they are often found embarrassing!

A university degree, in any case, is not remotely related to Vedic realization. Saints are not produced in batches every semester like accountants.

If you retain the joyous aftereffects of meditation throughout the day, or part of the day, you will see that this joy will correctly guide you in everything. Saints are guided by this joy, in the consciousness of which no erroneous actions are possible. Retain the acquired joy of meditation throughout the day.

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

Guilt's my mainstream," I explained. "The central theme of my life. The Church laid a foundation of pure guilt inside me. They raised a temple in the soft center of a child. Floors were paved with guilt. Statues of saints were carved out of great blocks of it.

To "grow in grace" means to utilize more and more grace to live by, until everything we do is assisted by grace. Then, whatever we do in word or deed will all be done in the name of the Lord Jesus (Colossians 3:17). The greatest saints are not those who need less grace, but those who consume the most grace, who indeed are most in need of grace—those who are saturated by grace in every dimension of their being. Grace to them is like breath.

Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold business people in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact a free market puts a premium on empathy.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

Beyond all history that he knows, Where trees like great saints stand in time, Eternal in their patience. Loss Has rectified the songs that come Into this columned room, and he Only in silence, nothing in hand Comes here. A generosity Is here by which the fallen stand.

For the heaven and the earth; the sun and the moon and the stars; the whole opening universe of our day; the Scriptures of truth, with all that they contain; the Church of Christ, with all her services and all her saints—all are set before us to teach us and to compel us indeed to "think magnificently of God.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

It lives as pictures only can : by their power TO ESCAPE ILLUSION and stand between man and nature as saints once stood between man and the sky...