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Quotes by Saint
"The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences."
50
"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."
49
"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
Art,
48
"The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are."
47
"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."
46
"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."
45
"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."
44
"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
44
"When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere."
43
"We cannot both preach and administer financial matters."
43
"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."
Time,
42
"There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart."
42
"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell."
41
"The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins."
40
"You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things."
40
"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."
38
"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."
38
"Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?"
38
"In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me."
37
"Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the ground without Thee. And yet are the hairs of his head easier to be numbered than his feelings, and the beatings of his heart."
37
"Idling of our elders is called business; the idling of boys, though quite like it, is punished by those same elders, and no one pities either the boys or the men."
36
"Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good."
36
"For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?"
36
"Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at one that you believe these things; you analyze and discern all this."
36
"Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me."
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