Best poverty & chastity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.”

World Behinds Poverty Illness Obedience Hospitals Vow Chastity

“Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.”

Ifs Difficult Poverty Grace Praying Obedience Chastity

Book:The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner

Source: The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner

“Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.”

Ifs Giving Use Able Religion Christ Poor Poverty Our Lives Surrender Obedience Vow Chastity Using Me Undivided Love

Author:Mother Teresa

“Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen's Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.”

“I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.”

Years Given Forget Poverty Heard Thousand Hundred Consequence Raised Obedience Frank Confession Crowns Sovereign Vow Chastity

Book:THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray.”

Heart Body Poverty Blessed Gods Will Obedience Goods Permit Worldly Obedient God Bless Chastity Consecration

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.”

Found Levels Poverty Higher Mere Etc Detachment Chastity Higher Level Amputation

Author:Gabriel Marcel

“A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER”

Waiting Poverty Obedience Chastity Nun Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker Charley Davidson

Book:The Charley Davidson Series

Source: The Charley Davidson Series

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