Quotes by Saint I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself. Elizabeth Barton saint communication angel We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean. Elizabeth Ann Seton saint ocean suffering The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom. Elizabeth Ann Seton saint soul water Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How awful those words of unloosing, after thirty years of bondage! I felt as if my chains fell, as those of Saint Peter at the touch of the divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul! Elizabeth Ann Seton messengers saint soul The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious. Elizabeth Charles devil saint religious autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror. Elizabeth Goudge autumn saint spring These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. Elizabeth Kostova saint atheist culture You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you. Ellis Peters deny devil saint Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired Ellis Peters retrospect saint may In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history. Elizabeth Gilbert saint christian heaven If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse. Emile M. Cioran fascination saint men If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. Emile M. Cioran long-ago saint mean It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger. Ephrem the Syrian blasphemy saint praying Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany... After, I'm guessing, amnesia. Emo Philips guessing germany saint I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints. Eric Ludy ponies saint guy Saints are usually killed by their own people. Eric Sevareid saint people religion Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It speaks rather in his favor. This used to be much better understood. Ernst Junger saint doubt world Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. Eric Hoffer experience saint literature Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint. Erich Fromm human-nature saint men it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint. Eugenia Price saint mother doe «678910111213141516»