#saint

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Just as the sun shines on all the trees and flowers as if each were the only one on earth, so does God care for all souls in a special manner.


St. Therese of Lisieux


#love

An I mo chridhe, I mo ghraidh. - In Iona that is my heart's desire, Iona that is my love.


Saint Columba


#heart #iona #saints #scotland #love

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead.


Mother Angelica


#men

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.


St. Anthony the Great


#christian #coptic #modernity #orthodox #saint

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


#motivation #teaching #motivational

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.


Billy Joel


#sadness #saints #sin #virtue #sad

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.


C.S. Lewis


#jesus

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.


Ayn Rand


#saints #insult

...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.


Martha N. Beck


#controversial #faith #leaving #leaving-the-saints #mormonism

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.


Nelson Mandela


#saints #sin #sinners #sin