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Saint Inspirational Quotes (1927)

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All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.
Francis of Assisi
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome
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Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.
Mother Teresa
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We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please we make the Holy Scriptures the rule and the measure of every tenet we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings
Gregory of Nyssa
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You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
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By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
Saint Augustine
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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
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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When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
Mother Teresa
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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa
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Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.
Angela of Foligno
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O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in life or in death, but who willed to give Himself wholly to you, and to unite you to Himself forever?
Angela of Foligno
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Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory.
Angela Merici
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We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
Angela Merici
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Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.
Angela Merici
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Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.
Angela Merici
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Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
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When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.
Sathya Sai Baba
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This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him that is, when the soul is found in mortal sin, at that time, it is so monstrous and horrible to behold, that it is impossible to imagine anything equally so.
Catherine of Genoa
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Spread love everywhere you go first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Mother Teresa
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
Thomas More
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There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that.
Mother Teresa
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The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.
Sathya Sai Baba
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Listen to the Lord's appeal:...Come, then, return to me and learn to know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds.
Peter Chrysologus
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