Author Topic: Favorite Quotations from the Saints? (Read 7175 times)

shin · « **Reply #5 on:** July 08, 2013, 07:36:53 PM »

Wouldn't it be something if everyone was doing right, and no one doing wrong..

Mithrandylan · « **Reply #6 on:** July 08, 2013, 07:38:24 PM »

Not a quote, but when St Thomas More was brought to the block he asked his beard to be positioned so that it wasn't harmed, since his beard had not offended.

MyrnaM · « **Reply #7 on:** July 08, 2013, 07:40:14 PM »

Quote from: ServusSpiritusSancti

"Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it; right is right, even if no one is doing it." - St. Augustine

When I was in Catholic school, many, many years ago, there was this one particular nun who would start her class every day with that quote above.

It got drummed into my head and honestly this is what was going through my mind when I realized that Vatican II was not the Church.

shin · « **Reply #8 on:** July 08, 2013, 07:56:27 PM »

Quote from: Mithrandylan

Not a quote, but when St Thomas More was brought to the block he asked his beard to be positioned so that it wasn't harmed, since his beard had not offended.

Ho ho, that's a good one. It sounds like something an Eastern saint would say. They like their beards out there.

Mithrandylan · « **Reply #9 on:** July 08, 2013, 08:07:49 PM »

Quote from: shin

Quote from: Mithrandylan
Not a quote, but when St Thomas More was brought to the block he asked his beard to be positioned so that it wasn't harmed, since his beard had not offended.

Ho ho, that's a good one. It sounds like something an Eastern saint would say. They like their beards out there.

It is, isn't it?

After I wrote my reply, I decided to actually do a little research to find the origin of that tradition. Interestingly enough, it comes from David Hume's History of England!

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The executioner asking him forgiveness, he granted the request, but told him, “You will never get credit by beheading me, my neck is so short.” Then laying his head on the block, he bade the executioner stay till he put aside his beard: “For,” said he, “it never committed treason.”

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