What is your favorite Bible verse or favorite quotation by a saint or famous personality?

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"If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed, you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint, you will not put yourself on a pedestal.
(Mother Theresa
 
“Pray, hope, and don’t worry.” - Padre Pio

I also like “No matter who says what, accept it with a smile and do your own work.” I have liked that for many decades (since the late 70s approximately) and when I first read it, it was attributed to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, but recently I have read that she didn’t say it. I can’t find any source for who actually did say it. If anyone knows, please post.
 
Thanks a lot for that inspiring post, Tis-Bearself. I actually waited for you to post here. Please post more later, I’m sure you have a lot more to share.😀
 
I like to read the postings of others as they come up with new ones I don’t know yet.
So maybe after a lot of other people post I will contribute another morsel or two.
 
The Responses of Pope St. Nicholas I to the Questions of the Bulgars A.D. 866 (Letter 99)

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/866nicholas-bulgar.asp
Chapter XLI.

Concerning those who refuse to receive the good of Christianity and sacrifice and bend their knees to idols, we can write nothing else to you than that you move them towards the right faith by warnings, exhortations, and reason rather than by force…Violence should by no means be inflicted upon them to make them believe. For everything which is not voluntary, cannot be good. Indeed, God commands that willing service be performed only by the willing. But if you ask about what should be judged concerning persons of this sort, concerning those who are outside our religion, I shall judge nothing, but I shall save them for the judgment of God, Who is going to judge all flesh

Chapter CII.

We have taught above that violence should not be inflicted upon the pagan in order to make him become a Christian.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part I: Chapter XXIV. | St-Takla.org
“…Let one man worship God, another Jupiter; let one lift suppliant hands to the heavens, another to the altar of Fides; let one — if you choose to take this view of it — count in prayer the clouds, and another the ceiling panels; let one consecrate his own life to his God, and another that of a goat. For see that you do not give a further ground for the charge of irreligion, by taking away religious liberty, and forbidding free choice of deity, so that I may no longer worship according to my inclination, but am compelled to worship against it. Not even a human being would care to have unwilling homage rendered him…”
  • Tertullian (155 – c. 240 AD), Early Church Father in Chapter XXIV.
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CHURCH FATHERS: To Scapula (Tertullian)


“…It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions: one man’s religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion — to which free-will and not force should lead us…”
  • Tertullian (155 – c. 240 AD), Early Church Father in Ad Scapula, Ch. II
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Thanks a lot for these, Vouthon. Interesting and inspiring 😀
 
Jesus said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you"

(Luke 14:12-14)
 
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28)

In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all! (Colossians 3:11)
 
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A bit long but very powerful, a statement from the German Bishops under the Nazi regime condemning involuntary euthanasia of the incurably sick and disabled, as well as arrest of innocent people without trial:
"…We emphasize that before the authorities we not only stand up for religious and clerical rights but likewise for the human rights bestowed by God on mankind… Without them the entire Western culture must break down.

For years a war has raged in our Fatherland against Christianity and the Church, and has never been conducted with such bitterness. Repeatedly the German bishops have asked the Reich Government to discontinue this fatal struggle …

We demand juridical proof of all sentences and release of all fellow citizens who have been deprived of their liberty without proof…

Every man has the natural right to life and the goods essential for living. The living God, the Creator of all life, is sole master over life and death. With deep horror Christian Germans have learned that, by order of the State authorities, numerous insane persons, entrusted to asylums and institutions, were destroyed as so-called “unproductive citizens.”

At present a large-scale campaign is being made for the killing of incurables through a film recommended by the authorities and designed to calm the conscience through appeals to pity. We German Bishops shall not cease to protest against the killing of innocent persons. Nobody’s life is safe unless the Commandment, “Thou shalt not kill,” is observed…"

- German Catholic Bishops’ Pastoral Letter of 22 March 1942
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“Remember that I have created you for Heaven; you have nothing to do with the earth.”

said by Jesus to St. Gemma.
 
St. Teresa in The Interior Castle on the second mansion:
The soul will certainly suffer great trials at this time, especially if the devil sees that its character and habits are such that it is ready to make further progress: all the powers of hell will combine to drive it back again.

Let him have a fixed determination not to allow himself to be beaten, for, if the devil sees that he has firmly resolved to lose his life and his peace and everything that he can offer him rather than to return to the first room, he will very soon cease troubling him.
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Conscious of the obligations of Our high office We deem it necessary to reiterate this grave statement today, when to Our profound grief We see at times the deformed, the insane, and those suffering from hereditary disease deprived of their lives, as though they were a useless burden to Society; and this procedure is hailed by some as a manifestation of human progress, and as something that is entirely in accordance with the common good.

Yet who that is possessed of sound judgment does not recognize that this not only violates the natural and the divine law[16] written in the heart of every man, but that it outrages the noblest instincts of humanity?

The blood of these unfortunate victims who are all the dearer to our Redeemer because they are deserving of greater pity, “cries to God from the earth"
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(Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Mystici corporis Christi, 1943)
 
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The CAF forum censored my post…

Sirach 25:25 in the NABRE reads

“A headstrong wife is regarded as a [bee eye tee see h], but the one with a sense of shame fears the Lord.”
 
As the sparrow finds a home

and the swallow a nest to settle her young,

My home is by your altars,

LORD of hosts, my king and my God!

~ Psalm 84:3
 
Saint Teresa’s Prayer

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

May today there be peace within.

May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.

May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.

May you be confident knowing you are a child of God.

Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.

It is there for each and every one of us.
 
This inspirational writing was on the wall of Mother Teresa’s home in Calcutta, India. It’s called “The Final Analysis”
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        People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
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        If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
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        If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.
Succeed anyway.
Code: 
       If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.
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        What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.
Create anyway.
Code: 
        If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
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        The good you do today, will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.
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     Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
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     In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
 
Let nothing disturb you;

Nothing frighten you

All things are passing,

God never changes,

Patience

Obtains all things,

Nothing

Is wanting to him

Who possesses God,

God alone suffices.

St. Teresa of Avila
 
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life span? Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like any of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, willl he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? So do not worry and say ‘What are we to wear?’ All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”

Matthew 6:24-34
 
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