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Quotes by Saint
"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."
71
"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."
71
"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."
71
"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."
68
"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
Evil,
67
"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."
67
"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
66
"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."
64
"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
62
"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."
62
"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
61
"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
61
"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."
61
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
61
"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."
60
"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."
60
"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."
59
"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."
God,
59
"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
59
"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."
57
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
56
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
56
"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."
55
"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."
55
"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
54
"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."
52
"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience."
51
"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."
51
"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."
50
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