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...
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...
But in the end they were not called saints because of the way they died, or because of their visions or wondrous deeds, but because of their extraordinary capacity for the love and goodness, which rem...
The most sacred truths of the faith are given full material reality, leading up to that moment when Christ himself becomes present at the altar. This was marked by the moment of elevation when the pri...
Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
She's no angel.He's no saint.
Who can we claim to know God, and deny him by our actions.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost heart. This cross He now sends you He has considered with His all-knowing e...
To be a servant of the Saviour is the sacred service.
What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?
Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.
The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints.
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.
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...
One of my favorite movies is 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.'
Go back to Socrates: "Know thyself." For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets...
One does not cross-examine a saint.
A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.
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