Favorite quote from a saint

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I would just like to see some of your guys favorite quotes from the holy men and women that have served Christ and his Church.
 
St Teresa when she fell off a donkey into a ditch:

‘If this is how you treat your friends Lord no wonder you have so few friends!’

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Good thread, I like it, thank you!
 
St. Josemaria Escriva - # 711 The Way

“Another fall, and what a fall! Must you give up hope? No. Humble yourself and, through Mary, your Mother, have recourse to the merciful Love of Jesus. A miserere, and lift up your heart! And now begin again.”
 
Only one??!! How about three:
What men call fame is, after all, but a very windy thing. A man thinks that many are praising him, and talking of him alone, and yet they spend but a very small part of the day thinking of him, being occupied with things of their own. -St. Thomas More
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People are generally called intelligent through a wrong use of this word. The intelligent are not those who have studied the sayings and writings of the wise men of old, but those whose soul is intelligent, who can judge what is good and what is evil; they avoid what is evil and harms the soul and intelligently care for and practice what is good and profits the world, greatly thanking God. -St. Anthony the Ascetic
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If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. -St. Ignatius of Loyola
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Grace and Peace!

These are a couple I enjoy that share a similar theme:

“God became man that we might become God.”–St. Athanasius

“Man becomes through grace what God is by nature.”–St. Maximos the Confessor

“…Let us recognize our dignity; let us honour our Archetype; let us know the power of the mystery, and for what Christ died. Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. Let us become gods for His sake, since He for ours became man. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich; He took upon Himself the form of a servant that we might receive back our liberty; He came down that we might be exalted; He was tempted that we might conquer; He was dishonoured that He might glorify us; He died that He might save us; He ascended that He might draw to Himself us, who were lying low in the fall of sin. Let us give all, offer all, to Him Who gave Himself a ransom and a reconciliation for us. But one can give nothing like oneself, understanding the mystery, and becoming for His sake all that He became for ours.” --St. Gregory Nazianzen

Under the Mercy,
Mark

Deo Gratias!
 
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Hegesippus:
I would just like to see some of your guys favorite quotes from the holy men and women that have served Christ and his Church.
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Saint Lorenzo. He is my patron saint. He was martyred on a grill. In the beginning he was placed on his back, on the grill over hot coals. As was customary, the person torturing him approached and told him that his suffering would be ended if he recanted his faith. Lorenzo looks at the person putting him through the torture and says these words in response, “Turn me over, I am done on this side.”

They did so, and cooked him alive. Other than the statement above, he never made a sound.

Brad
 
“Nada, nada, nada, nada, nada, nada, y aun en el monte nada”-St. John of the Cross

“Life here on earth is like a bad night in a bad inn”-St Teresa of Avila

“This life that I live
is no life at all,
and so I die continually
until I live with you;
hear me, my God:
I do not desire this life,
I am dying because I do not die.”-San John of the Cross
 
batteddy said:
“Nada, nada, nada, nada, nada, nada, y aun en el monte nada”-St. John of the Cross

“Life here on earth is like a bad night in a bad inn”-St Teresa of Avila

“This life that I live
is no life at all,
and so I die continually
until I live with you;
hear me, my God:
I do not desire this life,
I am dying because I do not die.”-San John of the Cross
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I get most of the Spanish quote - nada means nothing, but what does the whole quote mean?

My personal favourite is ‘grant me chastity and continence Lord - just not yet!’ (St Augustine)
 
"Let the one who falls rise again, and the one who turns away return again; let the wounded have his wounds healed, and the one caught by wild beasts escape. I do not want the death of a sinner but for him to return and live. There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside. For when you turn back and weep, then you will be saved.’

St. Basil the Great
 
St. John of the Cross:
It is noteworthy that any soul with authentic love cannot be satisfied until it really possesses God. The Spiritual Canticle, stz. 6, #4.
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If anything pleases Him it is the exaltation of the soul. Since there is no way by which He can exalt her more than by making her equal to Himself, He is pleased only with her love. For the property of love is to make the lover equal to the object loved. The Spiritual Canticle, stz. 28, #1.
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“Woe to me if I should prove to be a half hearted soldier in the service of my thorn crowned Captain.” St. Fidelis
 
“God does not place a desire in your heart that He doesn’t intend to fulfill.” Saint Therese the Little Flower on desiring to become a SAINT!

“My heart is restless until it rests in You.” Saint Augustine

“The communion of saints. How shall I explain it to you? You know what blood transfusions can do for the body? Well, tha’s what the communion of saints does for the soul.” Saint Josemaria Escriva in The Way (p.183).

I could go on & on. I also love the prayer of Saint Francis.
 
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