I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
Saint Patrick
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SAINT PATRICK Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
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RANDY THOMAS I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
NELSON MANDELA Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner
ERIC HOFFER Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
ERIC HOFFER I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON I am not a saint; I am a sinner. I want to sin again and
again and again.
S. JAE-JONES —No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
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POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.
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CHRIS CORRIGAN Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's d...
PATRICK NESS Here
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AUTUMN REESER The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
MOTHER TERESA I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
MOTHER TERESA The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
MOTHER TERESA Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t...
MOTHER TERESA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money...
MOTHER TERESA I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touc...
MOTHER TERESA Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
MOTHER TERESA Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
MOTHER TERESA Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call...
MOTHER TERESA True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in t...
ST. JEROME Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only...
MOTHER TERESA Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ST. JEROME Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need...
MOTHER TERESA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
MOTHER TERESA Peace begins with a smile.
MOTHER TERESA The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left...
MOTHER TERESA If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have t...
MOTHER TERESA Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
MOTHER TERESA Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwan...
MOTHER TERESA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
MOTHER TERESA Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
MOTHER TERESA Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger,...
MOTHER TERESA A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
MOTHER TERESA Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
MOTHER TERESA Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
MOTHER TERESA Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
MOTHER TERESA Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
MOTHER TERESA Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
MOTHER TERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less be...
MOTHER TERESA Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
MOTHER TERESA I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o...
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SAINT AMBROSE Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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SAINT AMBROSE There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
SAINT AMBROSE No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
SAINT AMBROSE A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
SAINT AMBROSE Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
SAINT AMBROSE When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
SAINT AMBROSE It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
SAINT IGNATIUS Custom is second nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The verdict of the world is conclusive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He who labours, prays.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I alr...
SAINT AUGUSTINE I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it...
SAINT AUGUSTINE No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
SAINT AUGUSTINE There is no possible source of evil except good.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Hear the other side.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h...
SAINT AUGUSTINE To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to...
SAINT AUGUSTINE God is best known in not knowing him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE To seek the highest good is to live well.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in e...
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SAINT AUGUSTINE He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE The purpose of all wars, is peace.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Love, and do what you like.
SAINT AUGUSTINE God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE This world's a bubble.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and...
SAINT IGNATIUS Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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SAINT BASIL Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
[Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.]
SAINT JEROME The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
SAINT JEROME Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
SAINT AUGUSTINE I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Unless you believe, you will not understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The argument is at an end.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders,...
SAINT AMBROSE Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Patience is the companion of wisdom.
SAINT AUGUSTINE What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights...
SAINT BASIL The greatest evil is physical pain.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
SAINT AUGUSTINE