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When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished the famous office of “Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono.


Christopher Hitchens


#beatification #canonisation #deacons #devil #devil-s-advocate

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


#antoine-de-saint-exupery #children #philosophy #the-little-prince #children

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.


Leslie Charteris


#adventures #amorous #i #saint #speak

I ask not for riches or glory, not even the glory of Heaven - that belongs by right to my brothers the Angels and Saints, and my own glory shall be the radiance that streams from the queenly brow of my Mother, the Church. Nay, I ask for Love. To love Thee, Jesus, is now my only desire. Great deeds are not for me; I cannot preach the Gospel or shed my blood. No matter! My brothers work in my stead, and I, a little child, stay close to the throne, and love Thee for all who are in the strife. But how shall I show my love, since love proves itself by deeds? Well! The little child will strew flowers...she will embrace the Divine Throne with their fragrance, she will sing Love's Canticle in silvery tones. Yes, my Beloved, it is thus my short life shall be spent in Thy sight. The only way I have of proving my love is to strew flowers before Thee - that is to say, I will let no tiny sacrifice pass, no look, no word. I wish to profit by the smallest actions, and to do them for Love. I wish to suffer for Love's sake, and for Love's sake even to rejoice: thus shall I strew flowers.


St. Therese of Liseiux


#christianity #god #inspirational #missionary #saints

There is no sinner like a young saint.


Aphra Behn


#saint #sinner #young

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.


Sophie Kerr


#industrious #lazy #much #prefer #saint

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.


Maria Monk


#cruel #doubts #entertain #express #francis

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.


St. Francis of Assisi


#inspirational #saints #inspirational

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.


Robert Runcie


#cook #gave #i #numbered #people

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.


Bernardin de Saint-Pierre


#life #paul-and-virginie #paul-et-virginie #pessimism #pessimistic