#saints

Great writers are the saints for the godless. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#great #saints #writers

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#hospital #museum #saints #sinners

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#diana #gave #gives #herself #hillary

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#saints #spirit #spiritual-life #unregenerate #worth

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. ↗

— Thomas Becket

#christ #crown #effort #ever #faith

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society. ↗

— St. Francis of Assisi

#inspirational #saints #inspirational

Saints are those who managed to love more than we did. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#love

Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion of saints.' They are still our brothers and sisters in Christ. When we celebrate the Eucharist they are there with us, along with the angels and archangels. Why then should we not pray for and with them? The reason the Reformers and their successors did their best to outlaw praying for the dead was because that had been so bound up with the notion of purgatory and the need to get people out of it as soon as possible. Once we rule out purgatory, I see no reason why we should not pray for and with the dead and every reason why we should - not that they will get out of purgatory but that they will be refreshed and filled with God's joy and peace. Love passes into prayer; we still love them; why not hold them, in that love, before God? ↗

— N.T. Wright

#communion-of-saints #paradise #prayer #praying-for-the-dead #purgatory

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#god #politics #saints #theology #harmony

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. ↗

— Athanasius

#imitate #life #mind #possibly #pure