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Offline Gray2023

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Re: Saint quotes
« Reply #540 on: February 15, 2025, 06:21:57 PM »
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    • What is it, O my God, that we expect to gain by appearing well before creatures, and by pleasing them? What does it matter to us if we are blamed by them, and considered worthless, provided we are great and faultless before Thee? Ah, we never come fully to an understanding of this truth, and so we never succeed in standing upon the summit of perfection! The Saints had no greater pleasure than to live unknown and abject in the hearts of all.----St. Bernard
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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 #541 on: February 16, 2025, 12:19:09 PM »
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    • Quote from: Gray2023 on February 16, 2024, 03:17:30 PM
    When you see anyone who desires esteem and honors and avoids contempt, and who, when contradicted or neglected, shows resentment and takes it ill, you may be sure that such a one, though he were to perform miracles, is very far from perfection, for all his virtue is without foundation.----St. Thomas Aquinas
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #542 on: February 18, 2025, 06:20:19 PM »
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    • Quote from: Gray2023 on February 18, 2024, 06:48:25 PM
    I pray you, do not make much account of certain trifles which some call wrongs and grievances; for we seem to manufacture these things out of straws, like children, with our points of honor. A truly humble person never believes that he can be wronged in anything. Truly, we ought to be ashamed to resent whatever is said or done against us; for it is the greatest shame in the world to see that our Creator bears so many insults from His creatures, and that we resent even a little word that is contradictory. Let contemplative souls, in particular, take notice that if they do not find themselves quite resolved to pardon any injury or affront which may be inflicted upon them, they cannot trust much to their prayer. For the soul which God truly unites to Himself by so lofty a method of prayer, feels none of these things, and no longer cares whether she is esteemed or not, or whether she is spoken well of or ill; nay rather honors and repose give her more pain than dishonor and trials.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #543 on: February 19, 2025, 10:01:56 PM »
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    • Quote from: Gray2023 on February 19, 2024, 08:58:00 AM
    Whoever is humble, on being humiliated, humbles himself the more; on being rejected, rejoices in the disgrace; on being placed in low and mean occupations, acknowledges himself to be more honored than he deserves, and performs them willingly; and only abhors and avoids exalted and honorable offices.----St. Jane Frances de Chantal
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #544 on: February 19, 2025, 10:24:51 PM »
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    • Did you get so little "unwanted" attention that you were compelled to re-quote yourself?

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? Aspergers?

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    Offline Gray2023

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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #545 on: February 20, 2025, 01:02:08 AM »
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    • Quote from: Mark 79 on February 19, 2025, 10:24:51 PM
    Did you get so little "unwanted" attention that you were compelled to re-quote yourself?

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? Aspergers?
    I am posting quotes from a book. I have gone through the whole year. I thought I would just repeat the quotes, because who goes back and looks at them again. We can't have too many quotes from Saints. If Matthew has a problem with it, I will stop.
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #546 on: February 20, 2025, 01:52:11 AM »
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    • My comment was not and is not directed at the inherent value of the quotes.

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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #547 on: February 20, 2025, 03:05:11 AM »
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    • And my post was just to clarify why I was reposting them.
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #548 on: February 20, 2025, 07:48:06 PM »
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    • Quote from: Gray2023 on February 20, 2024, 09:20:46 AM
    Missionaries should rejoice to be considered poor in talent, birth and virtue, the dregs and off scouring of the world. They should be glad whenever there arises any opportunity for abjection and contempt, even though it be not for themselves alone, but also extending to the Congregation. And by this test they will be able to know what progress they are making in humility.----St. Vincent de Paul
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #549 on: February 22, 2025, 06:59:52 PM »
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    • Quote from: Gray2023 on February 22, 2024, 08:36:36 AM
    He who is truly humble must desire in truth to be despised, mocked, persecuted, and blamed, although wrongfully. If he wishes to imitate Christ, how can he do it better than in this way? Oh, how wise will he, one day, be seen to be, who rejoiced in being accounted vile and even a fool! for such was wisdom itself esteemed.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #550 on: February 23, 2025, 05:57:28 AM »
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    • Quote from: Gray2023 on February 23, 2024, 03:36:16 PM
    If we should well consider all that is human and imperfect in us, we should find but too much cause to humiliate ourselves before God and men, even before our inferiors.----St. Vincent de Paul
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #551 on: February 23, 2025, 10:18:16 AM »
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    • Ven. Matthew Talbot (d. 1925) to his sister who had to deal with her alcoholic husband, "Remember to be patient with the alcoholic.  For an alcoholic to go a day without alcohol is a greater miracle than to raise a man from the dead."  
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #552 on: February 24, 2025, 09:23:47 AM »
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    • Quote from: Gray2023 on February 24, 2024, 08:17:37 PM
    In my opinion, we shall never acquire true humility unless we raise our eyes to behold God. Looking upon His greatness, the soul sees better her own littleness; beholding His purity, she is the more aware of her own uncleanness; considering His patience, she feels how far she is from being patient; in fine, turning her glance upon the Divine perfections, she discovers in herself so many imperfections that she would gladly close her eyes to them.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #553 on: March 02, 2025, 02:43:26 PM »
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    • Quote from: Gray2023 on March 04, 2024, 08:42:10 AM
    He who allows himself to be ruled or guided by the lower and animal part of his nature, deserves to be called a beast rather than a man.----St. Vincent de Paul
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #554 on: March 03, 2025, 09:26:42 AM »
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    • Souls that have no habit of prayer are like a lame and paralytic body, which, though it has hands and feet, cannot use them. Therefore, to abandon prayer seems to me the same thing as to lose the straight road; for as prayer is the gate through which all the graces of God come to us, when this is closed, I do not know how we can have any.----St. Teresa
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