Saints Quotes
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Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Saints are only sinners who keep trying.
Mother Teresa
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God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.
William Gurnall
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Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
Wilfrid Sheed
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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.
Thomas Aquinas
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Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.
Blaise Pascal
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As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.
Thomas Aquinas
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If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
Blaise Pascal
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Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.
Blaise Pascal
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It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.
Anthony of Sourozh
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Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.
Ezra Taft Benson
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
Victor Hugo
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It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead.
Mark Hart
Crowded House
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I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.
Eric Ludy
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Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints.
Thomas Aquinas
