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Re: Saint quotes
« Reply #240 on: October 15, 2023, 05:14:07 PM »
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    Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, all things pass away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who has God finds he lacks nothing; God alone suffices. - St. Teresa of Jesus

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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #241 on: October 23, 2023, 09:08:51 PM »
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    Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, all things pass away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who has God finds he lacks nothing; God alone suffices. - St. Teresa of Jesus

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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #242 on: October 30, 2023, 08:52:53 AM »
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    St. Alphonsus Rodriguez (1617) 

    After his wife and child passed away, he applied to enter the society of Jesus, but was denied due to lack of education and bad health. He was finally admitted as a lay-brother and served as doorkeeper. He guided St. Peter Claver into his mission.

    "In the difficulties which are placed before me, why should I not act like a donkey? When one speaks ill of him, he says nothing. When he is mistreated, he says nothing. When he is forgotten, he says nothing. The servant of God must do likewise." - St Alphonsus Rodriguez

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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #243 on: November 06, 2023, 10:43:07 AM »
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    • (Though not a saint officially, sadly not even a Blessed, Cardinal Bacci was at age 84 part of the Ottaviani Intervention.)
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #244 on: November 06, 2023, 11:31:25 AM »
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    • 'On the last day, when the general examination takes place, 
    there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, 
    the aphorisms of Hippocrates, 
    or the paragraphs of Justinian. 
    Charity will be the whole syllabus.' 

    — St. Robert Bellarmine

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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #245 on: November 12, 2023, 01:28:14 PM »
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #246 on: November 19, 2023, 11:37:11 AM »
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    • 'I do not speak rashly, but as I feel and think. 
    I do not think that many bishops are saved, but that those who perish are far more numerous. 
    The reason is that the office requires a great soul. 
    For there are many things to make a bishop swerve from rectitude, 
    and he requires great vigilance on every side.' (St. John Chrysostom)
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #247 on: December 14, 2023, 08:50:29 AM »
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    • There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory.----St. Francis de Sales
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    1 Corinthians: Chapter 13 "4 Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; 5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;"

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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #248 on: December 15, 2023, 07:40:25 AM »
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    • If you give yourself to the practice of holy abandonment, though you may not perceive that you gain at all, you will, in fact, advance greatly, as it is with those who sail upon the open sea with favorable winds, trusting wholly to the care of the pilot.----St. Francis de Sales
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #249 on: December 16, 2023, 09:21:46 PM »
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    • One of the principal effects of holy abandonment in God is evenness of spirits in the various accidents of this life, which is certainly a point of great perfection, and very pleasing to God. The way to maintain it is in imitation of the pilots, to look continually at the Pole Star, that is, the Divine Will, in order to be constantly in conformity with it. For it is this will which, with infinite wisdom, rightly distributes prosperity and adversity, health and sickness, riches and poverty, honor and contempt, knowledge and ignorance, and all that happens in this life. On the other hand, if we regard creatures without this relation to God, we cannot prevent our feelings and disposition from changing, according to the variety of accidents which occur.----St. Francis de Sales

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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #250 on: December 17, 2023, 05:51:46 PM »
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    • In this holy abandonment springs up that beautiful freedom of spirit which the perfect possess, and in which there is found all the happiness that can be desired in this life; for in fearing nothing, and seeking and desiring nothing of the things of the world, they possess all.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #251 on: December 18, 2023, 12:58:11 PM »
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    • How beautiful it is to behold a person destitute of all attachment, ready for any act of virtue or charity, gentle to all, indifferent as to any employment, serene in consolations and tribulations, and wholly content if only the will of God be done!----St. Francis de Sales
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #252 on: December 22, 2023, 03:27:36 PM »
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    • The soul which remains attached to anything, even to the least thing, however many its virtues may be, will never arrive at the liberty of the Divine union. It matters little whether a bird be fastened by a stout or a slender cord----as long as he does not break it, slender as it may be, it will prevent him from flying freely. Oh what a pity it is to see some souls, like rich ships, loaded with a precious freight of good works, spiritual exercises, virtues and favors from God, which, for want of courage to make an end of some miserable little fancy or affection, can never arrive at the port of divine union, while it only needs one good earnest effort to break asunder that thread of attachment! For, to a soul freed from attachment to any creature, the Lord cannot fail to communicate Himself fully, as the sun cannot help entering and lighting up an open room when the sky is clear.----St. John Chrysostom
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    « Reply #253 on: December 24, 2023, 07:32:30 PM »
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    • To arrive at perfect union, there is needed a total and perfect mortification of the senses and desires. The shortest and most effectual method of obtaining it is this: As to the senses whatever pleasing object may offer itself to them, unconnected with pure love to God, we should refuse it to them instantly, for the love of Jesus Christ, who in this life neither had nor desired to have any pleasure except to do the will of His Father, which He called His food. If, for example, there should arise a fancy or wish to hear or see things which do not concern the service of God or lead especially to Him, we should deny this fancy, and refrain from beholding or hearing these things; but if this is not possible, it is sufficient not to consent with the will. Then as to the desires, we should endeavor to incline always to what is poorest, worst, most laborious, most difficult, most unpleasant, and to desire nothing except to suffer and be despised.----St. John of the Cross
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #254 on: December 28, 2023, 02:41:59 PM »
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    • Self-will, as God says by the Prophet, is what spoils and corrupts our devotions, labors, and penances. Therefore, not to lose time and trouble, we must endeavor never to act from the impulse of nature, interest, inclination, temper, or caprice, but always from the pure and single motive of doing the will of God, and accustom ourselves to this in all things. This is the most effectual, nay rather the only means of arriving safely and quickly at union with God.----St. Vincent de Paul
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