It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.
The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
What's that you're doing, Sassenach?Making out little Gizmo's birth certificate--so far as I can, I added.Gizmo? he said doubtfully. That will be a saint's name?I shouldn't think so, though you never...
Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?''Oh yes,' said Thomas. 'I don't believe it. By whom?''By Our Lord... on the altar.
As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him (Stephen). Apparently he wasn't a believer at the time. In fact, I think he was regarded as the most terrible enemy of...
The only difference between a saint and a pervert is Hypocrisy.
[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the...
The best saints swear fluently.
And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.-Revelations 20:9
What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?
We hope someday to be saints, but not martyrs
We might even say that the one thing which separates a saint from ordinary men is his readiness to be one with ordinary men. In this sense the word ordinary must be understood in its native and noble...
If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to gi...
Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.
There is nothing to unify God and the soul but the Cross.
Act in such a way that all those who come in contact with you will go away joyful. Sow happiness about you because you have received much from God; give, then, generously to others. They should take l...
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?''Oh yes,' said Thomas.
For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell – can change like this, we could all be saints by leaping as you leapt, by...
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