God’s love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God
Arsenie BocaTags: inspirational saints spirituality eastern-orthodoxy
Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.
Francis of AssisiSaints are sinners who kept on going.
Robert Louis StevensonYou know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?” I asked as I closed the book’s cover and headed for the door. “They always end up dead.
Leigh BardugoTags: saints heroes alina-starkov nikolai-lantsov
...The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patient and ‘saintlike’ to their children. They should truly love their children. And the children will share this love! For the bad attitude of the children, says father Porphyrios, the ones who are usually responsible for it are their parents themselves. The parents don’t help their children by lecturing them and repeating to them ‘advices’, or by making them obeying strict rules in order to impose discipline. If the parents do not become ‘saints’ and truly love their children and if they don’t struggle for it, then they make a huge mistake. With their wrong and/or negative attitude the parents convey to their children their negative feelings. Then their children become reactive and insecure not only to their home, but to the society as well...
Elder PorphyriosTags: friendship love devil parents society children christianity death hope hell saints spirituality christian parenting christ orthodoxy patient
An I mo chridhe, I mo ghraidh. - In Iona that is my heart's desire, Iona that is my love.
Saint ColumbaTags: christianity heart saints scotland iona
The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.
Peter KreeftTags: god saints prayer distraction
Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint
Peter KreeftBut personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.
Lois McMaster BujoldTags: religion saints mysticism
She's no angel.
He's no saint.
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