Category: saint
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Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
Saint Augustine
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa
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Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Saint Augustine
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine