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Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.
While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.
Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can
Christ is born: glorify Him. Christ comes from heaven: go out to meet Him. Christ descends to earth: let us be raised on high.
Every man gives his life for what he believes ... one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.
I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.
Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.
My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.
I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.
The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'
All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.
Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.
At the root of all this is purity. Where there is purity there love grows. When purity and love come together, there is bliss.
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
On a deep almost preconscious level we know, not with our minds but deep in our hearts the truth of the words, love never ends.
Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.
What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.
The whole world will be transformed into Sathya Sai Organisation and Sathya Sai will be installed in the hearts of one and all.
God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.
It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
The last degree of love is when He gave Himself to us to be our Food; because He gave Himself to be united with us in every way.
Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.
Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.
No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.
Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. "Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren." Clear? That was the work of Jesus.
Every time I ask for visa, they (USA) give me visa for five years. I have never had any problem in getting a visa to any nation.