Best poverty & obedience 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

“There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.”

Action Poverty Virtue Study Lessons Vices Riches Obedience Isolation Sickness Reincarnation Defiance Single Life Unbroken Comradeship

Author:J. M. E. McTaggart

“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

“But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.”

Ifs Asks Given Poverty Land Divine Misery Tyranny Obedience Sickness Stalking God Exists Eragon Custodians Handiwork

Author:Christopher Paolini

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”

“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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