Category: saint
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It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days.
Saint Patrick
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God’s good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that – as is the perfect truth – it was the gift of God.
Saint Patrick
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine
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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother Teresa
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All human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.
Swami Agnivesh
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call ‘Christian’ the true religion which existed before.
Saint Augustine