Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.
Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.
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.
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.
The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.
Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.
When I was working as a stylist, I was called in to meet the band All Saints. I opened the door, tripped and landed in Nicole's lap. Not a good start, but I got the job.
The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.
Jesus is giving you such an opportunity to be holy, holier than all the saints that have ever been, because the world is in such need of shining lives, beacons to see by.
It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.
The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.
I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.
The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.
The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.
If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.
Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.
Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.
It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.
Christ is the Morning Star,
who, when the night of this world is past,
gives to his saints the promise of the light of life,
and opens everlasting day.
I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines
If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.
The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.
Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them.
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
Sex and the City: The Movie' - a bit like the All Saints comeback, and the return of the Jammy Dodger, it feels a little staged and all wrong.
Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
In the midst of all this turmoil and destruction, the Latter-day Saints should dwell in peace and safety. This they may do if they will be honest with themselves, with their fellowmen, and with their God.
We are the nation's watchmen, no other people collectively love the Constitution and honor it and hold it as a divinely inspired document as do the Latter-day Saints.
You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.
Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
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