Saintliness is also a temptation.
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. -
What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.
Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.
When I went to England, to Saint Martins, I was traumatized, in a positive way. It was that British sense of transgression and the dark. Then when I went to Paris, I was doing couture, which everyone was saying was finished. Bullshit! For me, in the end, it was all a mixing of ingredients.
The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.
The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint. " -Della
Every day, I walk with my dog - summer, winter (it gets -20 F in Saint Paul), rain or shine. The nicer the day, of course, the longer the walk.
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.
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the patience of the Saint Job is needed. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the tenacity of the well tempered steel is needed.
We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us.
Christianity is the supernatural operation of the Holy Spirit. The faith once delivered to the saints is a miracle gospel, a miracle salvation with physical evidences.
Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.
Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.