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Saint Quotes by Pope Gregory I
- The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you…
- What do they not see, who see Him Who sees all things?
- The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.
- Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.
- We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.
- There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness;…
- If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We…
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- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and… — Margaret Atwood
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. — Saint Augustine
- May God protect me from gloomy saints. — Teresa of Avila
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
- We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett
- There is no sinner like a young saint. — Aphra Behn
- Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic… — Ezra Taft Benson
- For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are… — Annie Besant
- My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant
- Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. — Ambrose Bierce