Category: saint
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
Francis of Assisi
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
Saint Patrick
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The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
Swami Vivekananda
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free.
Swami Vivekananda
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The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
Francis of Assisi
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
Paramahansa Yogananda