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“He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his thoughts to God who is the mirror of the soul, seeks to know his defects and tries to correct them, moderates himself in his impulses and puts his conscience in order.”

Knows Trying Looks Persons Doe Soul Order Turns Knowing Conscience Mirrors Saint Impulse Bother Dirty Defects Moderates

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.”

Saint Desolation

Author:Margaret of Cortona

“I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.”

Heart Self Spiritual Jesus Lord Perfection Saint Sinner Savior Righteous Self Righteous Spiritual Perfection

Author:Thomas J. Paprocki

“Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.”

Men Made Wisdom Water Issues Movement Died Saint Islamic Latter Controlled Swimmer Volition Before Death

Author:Rumi

“To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.”

Doe Beautiful House Fine Dresses Saint Memorable

Book:The Respectable Lady

Source: The Respectable Lady

“This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.”

World Two Enjoy Enemy This World Saint Forsake

Author:Pope Clement I

“Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.”

School Young Lord Teach Saint

Author:Pope Clement I

“Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count the miles." As I said, the virtues are at the midpoint between excess and laxness. That is why it is written, "Do not turn to the right or the left" (Prov 4:27) but travel on the "royal way" (Num. 20:17). Saint Basil also says, "The person who does not allow his thoughts to incline towards excess or deprivation but directs it to the midpoint, that of virtue, is upright in heart."”

Way Heart Persons Doe Said Truth Turns Left Virtue Written Middle Saint Miles Excess Royal Elders Deprivation Incline Basil

Author:Dorotheus of Gaza

“Teach the mouth to say what you have in your heart.”

Heart Teach Mouths Saint

Author:Poemen

“Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure.”

Ifs Art House Lord Thousand Leaving Saint Thee Occasions Obedience Offending Displeasure

Author:Alphonsus Rodriguez

“Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.”

Mind Littles Skins Regard Blessed Saint Flesh Mastery Deceived Eyelids

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“The beginning of evil is heedlessness.”

Evil Saint

Author:Poemen

“We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.”

Law Desire Perfect Liberty Balance Faults Saint Neighbor Denied Strict Strict Laws

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.”

Heaven Religious Catholic Saint Command Queens Reign Virgin Mary Blessed Mother

Author:John Vianney

“Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.”

Children Lasts Religious Judgment Catholic Busy Saint Mary Too Busy Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Immaculate

Author:John Vianney

“Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.”

Christian Joy Mother Wife Son Sorrow Ideals Blessed Saint Thrones Womanhood Footsteps Blessed Mother

Author:John Vianney

“When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.”

Giving Hands Prayer Blessed Saint Handle Touched Virgins Fragrance Our Prayers Spices

Author:John Vianney

“We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing.”

Ideas Heaven Eternal Singing Saint Traditional Holiday Heavenly Get Away Harps Incessantly

Author:Herbert Lockyer

“The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there!”

Cities Saint Heavenly Departed

Author:David Berg

“Those whose primary concern is to destroy others are at the lowest level of development. Those who are only interested in their own satisfaction are farther along. Those who both do things for their own satisfaction and the satisfaction of others are even father along. Then there are saints who just constantly live for the welfare of others.”

Father Levels Development Concern Saint Satisfaction Karma Primaries Welfare Lowest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.”

Mind Has Beens States Amount Periods Lifetime Saint Karma Lovely State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.”

Wells Has Beens Soul Hard Genius Hero Periods Ambition Saint Your Soul Captains

Book:A Preface to Morals

Source: A Preface to Morals

“He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.”

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven!”

Men Heart Given Heaven Christ Born Clear Son Sweet Brother Charity Saint My Brother My Son Easter Risen Utterance Pentecost Chimes

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.”

Men May Saint Wit Great Men Foul Jest

Author:William Shakespeare

“The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.”

Men Believe Self Equal Atheist Saint Obligation Agony Englishmen

Book:Picked-up Pieces

Source: Picked-up Pieces

“The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.”

White Saint Mates Lilies

Book:The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti

Source: The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti

“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.”

Men Fall Sin Devil Saint Grieving Sinning

Book:The Holy and Profane States: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings

Source: The Holy and Profane States: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings

“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

“Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.”

Christian Fighting Prayer Saint Cease Knees Satan Armor Restraining

Author:William Cowper

“No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.”

Dying Praise Raises Saint Ill Rage Silver Makers Roof Vocal Piety Misers

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.”

Play Games Forgiveness Saint

Author:Kabir

“The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.”

Religion Mercy Saint

Book:The Poetical Works of Cha. Churchill in Three Volumes: With the Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of Cha. Churchill in Three Volumes: With the Life of the Author

“A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.”

Thinking Humans Energy Impossible Possibility Saint

Book:Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.”

“Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.”

Social Justice Enemy Truth Is Saint Traps Incarnation

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.”

Men Two Enough Three President Genius Saint

Author:Charlton Heston

“My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I said figure out some way, I just want to play a scene with this woman. But there was no way to make it work.”

Way Want Said Play Bigs Figures Regret Scene Saint Marie

Author:Jessica Lange

“Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.”

Looks Jesus Sin Wonder Lord Band Lays Saint Joyful Easter Risen Tidings Easter Day

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.”

Giving Talking Saint Foolish Thanks Fitting Coarse Thanksgiving Day Covetousness Not Fitting

Author:Paul the Apostle

“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.”

“It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.”

Needs Shows Ought Saint Our Love Serving Others

Book:The Spiritual Conferences

Source: The Spiritual Conferences

“The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.”

Lying Poor Gold Saint Stores Hungry Bread Naked Chests Serving Others Cloaks Almsgiving

Author:Saint Basil

“The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.”

Use Charity Injustice Shoes Saint Hungry Commit Bread Naked Garments Wardrobe Serving Others Barefoot Acts Of Charity

Author:Saint Basil

“The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.”

States Virtue Exercise Saint Perpetual Serving Others Constancy Mortification

Book:Letters to Persons in the World

Source: Letters to Persons in the World

“We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.”

May Saint Gracious Serving Others Considerate

Book:The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales

Source: The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales

“What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.”

Needs Understanding Ocean Saint Cups Serving Others Barrels

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.”

Spirit Angel Saint Familiar Angelic Guardian Angel Losing A Loved One My Angel True Riches My Guardian Angel

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.”

Would Be Suffering Willing Saint Affliction

Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

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