Attachment Quote by Alphonsus Liguori

“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence,…

— Philippe Claudel

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned…

— Thomas Aquinas

“The faithful of to-day should try by a more ardent contrition to make up for the enforced mildness of the Church in the administration…

— Joseph Pohle

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

— Anonymous

The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most flaming love…

— Charles Spurgeon

“The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological terms, recalls…

— Catharine Arnold

“Just as the separation of Church and world became visible only in their continuous conflict, so also does personal sanctification consist in the conflict…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“These are days of brutal truth from Tyndale. Saints are not your friends and they will not protect you. They cannot help you to…

— Hilary Mantel

As Christians, our duty is to pray for them and ask the Lord to give them the grace of penance, so that they don't…

— Pope Francis

The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before others when…

— Anthony of Padua

But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Here is the lesson: Great men and women of God are not exempt from hurt and offense. Instead, enduring the wounds of fellow Christians…

— Stephen Mansfield