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“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.”

Should Looks Life Is Christ Christianity Gains Saint Chosen Chains Triumph No Fear Christ Like Swerve

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

“Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.”

Way Giving Enemy Gains Saint Temptation

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise the authority of honesty, rather than to defer to power, or deceive to get it; to influence someone for justice, rather than impress anyone for gain and, by grace, to find treasures of joy, of friendship, of peace hidden in the fields of the daily you give me to plow.”

Giving Joy Waiting Difficult Justice Grace Influence Honesty Fields Exercise Authority Gains Give Me Saint Treasure Empowering Deceiving Impress Participants Ordinariness

Author:Ted Loder

“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”

Ifs Two Hands Asks Friendship Loses Accepting Judging Friends Gains Catholic Saint Stranger Disputes Request Hippo One Friend Two Friends Christian Friends

Author:Saint Augustine

“Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace, and that the goodness of the Almighty God is so great that He hears those who invoke His name, and they gain salvation, became humble, acknowledging that they are ignorant, and directed their life as the life of one desiring eternal wisdom. And that is the life of the virtuous, who proceed in the desire for the other life, which is commended by the saints.”

Desire Names Given Saws Grace Goodness Eternal Intellectual Gains Salvation Saint Humble Ignorant Virtuous Almighty Almighty God Invoke Intellectual Life

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.”

Writing Voice Forget Consciousness Heard Gains Saint Provinces

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Humility is an attribute of godliness possessed by true Saints. It is easy to understand why a proud man fails. He is content to rely upon himself only. This is evident in those who seek social position or who push others aside to gain position in fields of business, government, education, sports, or other endeavors. Our genuine concern should be for the success of others. The proud man shuts himself off from God, and when he does he no longer lives in the light.”

Source: That We Might Have Joy

“Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.”

Thinking Ends Remember Suffering Eternal Gains Saint Favors

Author:Teresa of Avila

“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.”

Lost Christianity Blood Willing Son Cost Gains Dear Saint Deny God Love

Book:The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War

Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War