#saint

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Look at our fathers in the old days, living masterpieces as they are and shining examples of true religion; and see how feeble our own achievement is, almost nothing. Heaven help us, what is our life in comparison with theirs? Holy people these, true friends of Christ, that could go hungry and thirsty in God's service; cold and ill-clad, worn out with labors and vigils and fasting, with praying and meditating on holy things, with all the persecutions and insults they endured.


Thomas à Kempis


#life

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.


Peter Kreeft


#catholicism #christ #christianity #francis-of-assisi #jesus-shock

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

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.


Shane Leslie


#another #day #every #find #goes

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


Leslie Charteris


#adventures #amorous #i #saint #speak

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.


William Gurnall


#bears #christ #imperfections #may #saints

No man can become a saint in his sleep.


Henry Drummond


#his #man #saint #sleep

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.


Frederick William Robertson


#common #easily #gathers #him #honor

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.


Alexander Pope


#madmen #run #saint #worst