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Why I love Jesus Christ; He saved me from my sins.

Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.

You are a cool cemetery. You have the sinner’s grave You have the saint’s earth colliding You have all the beds narrow as a knife; as if a rally of tombstones to defend death. But you can’t really postpone the inauguration of my burial, can you? From the poem - Few Words to Cemetery

Yet I have to wonder if I have lost the song because I have become the song. If I have lost my Lord because I do indeed desire to be what I will become. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.

You can’t do this,’ I said, though I had nothing whatsoever to back up my statement. ‘Why not? I seem to have an army behind me.’ ‘We have a Saint,’ Brasti said, pointing at Kest. ‘Your Saint seems to be unconscious,’ the Duke replied.

You know what I am - I am the same thing that you are. I am the torch, as well as the torch-bearer - I am harmony, as well as the advocate of harmony - I am progress, as well as the driver of progress - I am humanity's beacon of oneness - I am humanity's struggle for equality - I am humanity's fight for justice - and this is not I speaking to you, this is you speaking to yourself - for you and I are not separate, but one eternal all-encompassing reflection that has the potential to resonate through the chambers of time, once it recognizes, realizes and utilizes its reverberating responsibilities towards the world it's born in.

You see, my son,” continues Kolbe softly, “the saints are not so different than you or me. Their stories reveal them to be very much human. However, this frailty does not weaken their witness or holiness, but rather extends to us the invitation to the same life amid our own frailty.

You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!

A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise...a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.