We should not think of money as having any greater usefulness than stones.
St. Francis of Asissi (Earlier Rule 8)
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ST. FRANCIS OF ASISSI Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be...
SAINT IGNATIUS I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
SAINT IGNATIUS Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,...
SAINT IGNATIUS The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagati...
SAINT IGNATIUS We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the ...
SAINT IGNATIUS We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar...
SAINT IGNATIUS It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ...
SAINT IGNATIUS Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w...
SAINT IGNATIUS In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra...
SAINT IGNATIUS Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe...
SAINT IGNATIUS Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n...
SAINT IGNATIUS Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
SAINT IGNATIUS In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju...
SAINT IGNATIUS May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
SAINT IGNATIUS True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
SAINT IGNATIUS May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
SAINT IGNATIUS For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je...
SAINT IGNATIUS If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ...
SAINT IGNATIUS Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
SAINT BERNARD For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ...
SAINT BERNARD Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
SAINT BERNARD Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav...
SAINT BERNARD I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C...
SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
SAINT BERNARD A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ...
SAINT BERNARD Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in...
SAINT BERNARD Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ...
SAINT BERNARD That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
SAINT BERNARD There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin...
SAINT BERNARD You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason...
SAINT BERNARD I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor...
SAINT BERNARD Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a...
SAINT BERNARD Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong...
SAINT BERNARD In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al...
SAINT BERNARD God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig...
SAINT BERNARD We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
SAINT BERNARD Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinar...
SAINT BASIL The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enqu...
SAINT BASIL There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
SAINT BASIL We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not s...
SAINT BASIL We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individua...
SAINT BASIL Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control ov...
SAINT BASIL Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a ...
SAINT BASIL To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
SAINT BASIL Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you ...
SAINT BASIL By nature, men desire the beautiful.
SAINT BASIL Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
SAINT BASIL Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
SAINT BASIL God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our h...
SAINT BASIL What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who do...
SAINT BASIL Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itsel...
SAINT BASIL Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does n...
SAINT BASIL
More St. Francis of Asissi (Earlier Rule 8)
Good actions get good results in time.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASISSI Whoever comes to you, friend or foe, thief or robber, let them be received with kindness.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (EARLIER RULE 7) Do not be disturbed or angered at another's sin or evil, rather, spiritually help the one who has si...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (EARLIER RULE 5) Financial aid is a legacy and a justice due to the poor that our Lord Jesus Christ acquired for us. ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (EARLIER RULE 9) Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI The impossible - what nobody can do until somebody does
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can ill...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, althoug...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Preach the Gospel at all times ... if necessary, use words.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI For it is in giving that we receive.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Preach the gospel to all the world, and if necessary, use words
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is in...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
ST FRANCIS SALES What we are looking for is what is looking.
ST FRANCIS ASSISI It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our
walking is our preaching.
ST FRANCIS ASSISI I have been all things unholy; if God can work through me, He can work
through anyone.
ST FRANCIS ASSISI Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, alt...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to eve...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing va...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI I am the herald of the Great King.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them brigh...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no ene...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's wom...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where th...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, sho...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI For it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the imp...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 Where there is fea...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsm...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.
St. Francis of Assisi,
Canticle of the Sun
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us i...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What y...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI And St. Francis added: "My dear and beloved Brother, the treasure of blessed poverty is so very prec...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.
BIBLE SONG OF SOLOMON 8:7 They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
HOSEA: 8:7 He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.
JOHN 8:7 True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stron...
ST. THERESA OF LISIEUX Love is inseparable from knowledge.
ST. MACARIUS OF EGYPT Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
ST. THERESA OF LISIEUX When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, n...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exe...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA Hell is full of good intentions or desires.
ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to t...
ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attai...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . . .
ST. TERESA OF AVILA To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one te...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Learn to selfconquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very
clearly the advantage w...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God'...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's min...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Normal....
What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.
So what if the majori...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST THERESA OF JESUS It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA It is love alone that gives worth to all things
ST. TERESA OF AVILA If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
ST. TERESA OF AVILA To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God suffi...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. ...
ST. CLARE OF ASSISI Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be goo...
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in consi...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellen...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tender...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for w...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal time...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Do not wish to be anything except what you are.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantl...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, ...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in consi...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tender...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Be who you are and be that well.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for an...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you a...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as experience shows that the ...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
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JA RULE I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1...
JA RULE I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate famili...
JA RULE I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
JA RULE Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
JA RULE I've signed a few sneakers in my day.
JA RULE I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.
JA RULE The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
JA RULE There is only one me.
JA RULE Pain is love.
JA RULE Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking...
JA RULE Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I cal...
JA RULE These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.
JA RULE I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don&...
JA RULE People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room livi...
JA RULE That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the...
JA RULE I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in ...
JA RULE When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper ...
JA RULE After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not j...
JA RULE I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of ...
JA RULE I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burne...
JA RULE I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
JA RULE I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or ju...
JA RULE The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
ANN RULE Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
ANN RULE Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
ANN RULE I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a lit...
ANN RULE I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's ...
ANN RULE I always want to give the victim a voice.
ANN RULE I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because th...
ANN RULE Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own b...
ANN RULE For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a tri...
ANN RULE All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
ANN RULE I was prepared for [being waived]. You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN RULE I was prepared for (being waived). You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN RULE It has everything to do with the deep feeling and desire I have to still contribute, the feeling tha...
ALLAN RULE It is kind of ironic that the rule was named after me, and I'm still here. It's kind of like God is ...
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