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Quotes by Saint
"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
49
"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."
48
"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
47
"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."
46
"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."
46
"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."
God,
46
"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
45
"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
44
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
44
"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."
43
"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
42
"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."
42
"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."
42
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
41
"It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater."
41
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
40
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
40
"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
39
"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
Evil,
39
"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."
39
"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
39
"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."
37
"And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand."
37
"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
Art,
35
"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."
35
"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."
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