Best christianity & saint Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.”

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Book:The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed

Source: The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed

“Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it.”

“You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to convey is the psychic light, which is around everyone.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.”

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Author:Charles Peguy

“The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.”

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Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.”

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Book:An History of the Corruptions of Christianity

Source: An History of the Corruptions of Christianity

“Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.”

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Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.”

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Author:Vance Havner

“You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.”

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Author:Ciaran Hinds

“... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.”

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Author:Mary McCarthy

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

“Love is the beauty of the soul.”

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”

“When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.”

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Author:Samuel G. Freedman

“The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.”

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Author:Anne Rice

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)

“The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.”

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Author:Bruce R. McConkie

“When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.”

“Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.”

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Author:Oswald Chambers

“We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.”

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Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini

“Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.”

“Saints are sinners who kept on going.”

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Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

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