Quoted Saints

[WarriorAngel]

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I love Saints...

I love how they lived their lives and how we must imitate their humility and faith.

SO let's share quotes that are so profound.
Let us ponder the beauty their words possessed that may draw us closer to the Lord. :groupray:

[RadixLecti]

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I love Saints...

I love how they lived their lives and how we must imitate their humility and faith.

SO let's share quotes that are so profound.
Let us ponder the beauty their words possessed that may draw us closer to the Lord. :groupray:
"do the little things" St. David (of Wales)

[WarriorAngel]

:cool:
Someone must do the little things, and they are the ones who serve.

[Tawny]

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place for those who love us. - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux*

His feast day is my birthday :)

[WarriorAngel]

Let me ask, because I am curious. :)

DO you have patron Saints in the AC?

[RadixLecti]

Let me ask, because I am curious. :)

DO you have patron Saints in the AC?
What a good question. Yes we do! We also hold masses on saints days.

[RobNJ]

When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you
are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as
always, that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes brighter
than the sun; also all the angels, your own Guardian Angel, and
all the Saints of God. Truly they do; for they are all one in God,
and where God is, there are they also. Where the sun is, thither
also are directed all its rays. Try to understand what this means.

St. John of Kronstadt

[EmperorConstantine]

Something we all forget:

"He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins." - St. Maximos the Confessor.

[Dust and Ashes]

"This life has been given to you for repentance, do not waste it in vain pursuits." -- St. Isaac the Syrian

[WarriorAngel]

What a good question. Yes we do! We also hold masses on saints days.

:cool: Totally didn't know that. :thumbsup:

[zhilan]

"I have been all things unholy. If God can work though me, He can work through anyone." -St. Francis

He's not an Orthodox saint, but to me that is one of the most inspiring quotes and I try to remind myself of it frequently. The more I think about this quote, the more powerful I realize it is.

[EmperorConstantine]

"You ask, will the heterodox be saved... Why do you worry about them? They have a Saviour Who desires the salvation of every human being. He will take care of them. You and I should not be burdened with such a concern. Study yourself and your own sins..." - St. Theophan the Recluse.

[WarriorAngel]

:)

[Secundulus]

"Je me attens a Dieu, mon createur, de tout; je layme (l'ayme) de tout mon cuer"

"I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart."

[WarriorAngel]

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. ~St. Francis of Assisi

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
~Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
~Mother Teresa


I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
~Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
~Mother Teresa

I borrowed these from another thread.:crossrc:

[Dust and Ashes]

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
~Mother Teresa

I'm saving that one for a sig quote.

[Secundulus]

"Let us hold that which has been believed everywhere, always and by all, for that is truly and properly Catholic."

[Tawny]

What a good question. Yes we do! We also hold masses on saints days.

Exactly, oh and in my church Sunday Communion is very very similar to Catholic Mass.

This is our service. C of E Website (http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/liturgy/commonworship/texts/hc/orderone.html)

[Sacrum Silentium]

When a sailor voyages in the midst of the sea, he watches the stars and in relation to them he guides his ship until he reaches harbor. But a monk watches prayer, because it sets him right and directs his course to that harbor toward which his discipline should lead. A monk gazes at prayer at all times, so that it might show him an island where he can anchor his ship and take on provisions; then once more he sets his course for another island. Such is the voyage of a monk in this life: he sails from one island to another, that is, from knowledge to knowledge, and by his successive change of islands, that is, of states of knowledge, he progresses until he emerges from the sea and his journey attains to that true city, whose inhabitants no longer engage in commerce but each rests upon his own riches. Blessed is the man who has not lost his course in this vain world, on this great sea! Blessed is the man whose ship has not broken up and who has reached harbor with joy!

A man who craves esteem cannot be rid of the causes of grief.



Spiritual delight is not enjoyment found in things that exist s outside the soul.



Through the toil of prayer and the anguish of your heart commune with those who are grieved at heart, and the Source of mercy will be opened up to your petitions.


The man who endures accusations against himself with humility has arrived at perfection. He is marveled at by the holy angels, for there is no other virtue so great and so hard to achieve.


Before the war begins, seek out your ally; before you fall ill, seek out your physician; and before grievous things come upon you, pray, and in the time of your tribulations you will find Him, and He will listen to you.


Love the poor, and through them you will find mercy.


Do not disdain those who are handicapped from birth, because all of us will go to the grave equally privileged.


Love sinners, but hate their works; and do not despise them for their faults, lest you be tempted by the same trespasses.


It is better to avoid the passions by the recollection of the virtues than by resisting and arguing with them. For when the passions leave their place and arise for battle, they imprint on the mind images and idols. This warfare has great force, able to weaken the mind and violently perturb and confuse a man's thinking. But if a man acts by the first rule we have mentioned, when the passions are repulsed they leave no trace in the mind.


That which befalls a fish out of water, befalls the mind that has come out of the remembrance of God and wanders in the remembrance of the world.


The more a man's tongue flees verbosity, the more his intellect is illumined so as to be able to discern deep thoughts; for the rational intellect is befuddled by verbosity.


Whenever in your path you find unchanging peace, beware: you are very far from the divine paths trodden by the weary feet of the saints. For as long as you are journeying in the way to the city of the Kingdom and are drawing near the city of God, this will be a sign for you: the strength of the temptations that you encounter. And the nearer you draw close and progress, the more temptations will multiply against you.


As grass and fire cannot coexist in one place, so legality and mercy cannot abide in one soul.


Be persecuted, but persecute not; be crucified, but crucify not; be wronged, but wrong not; be slandered, but slander not. Have clemency, not zeal, with respect to evil. Lay hold of goodness, not legality.


Be every man's friend, but in your mind remain alone.


No man has understanding if he is not humble, and whoever lacks humility is devoid of understanding. No man is humble if he is not peaceful, and he who is not peaceful is not humble. And no man is peaceful without rejoicing.


We should not be exceedingly grieved when we make a slip in some matter, but only if we persist in it; for even the perfect often slip, but to persist therein is total death.


There is no knowledge that is not impoverished, however rich it should be; but heaven and earth cannot contain the treasures of faith.


His path has been trodden from the ages and from all generations by the cross and by death. How is it with you, that the afflictions on the path seem to you to be off the path? Do you not wish to follow the steps of the saints? Or have you plans for devising some way of your own, and of journeying therein without suffering.


The path of God is a daily cross. No one has ascended into Heaven by means of ease, for we know where the way of ease leads and how it ends.


In truth, without afflictions there is no life.


A merciful man is the physician of his own soul. Like a violent wind he drives the darkness of the passions out of his inner self.


Conquer evil men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion. With the afflicted be afflicted in mind. Love all men, but keep distant from all men.


Silence is a mystery of the age to come, but words are instruments of this world.


A man who sits in stillness and who receives experience of God's kindness has little need of persuasive argument, and his soul is not sick with the disease of unbelief, like those who are doubtful of the truth. For the testimony of his own understanding is sufficient to persuade him above endless words having no experience behind them.


Know with certainty, therefore, that to stand is not within your power, nor does it pertain to your virtue, but it belongs to grace herself which carries you upon the palm of her hand, that you may not be alarmed.


Humility, even without works, gains forgiveness for many offenses; but without her, works are of no profit to us, and rather prepare for us great evils.


Not every quiet man is humble, but every humble man is quiet.


It is a spiritual gift from God for a man to perceive his sins.


This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.


Prayer offered up at night possesses a great power, more so than the prayer of the day-time. Therefore all the righteous prayed during the night, while combating the heaviness of the body and the sweetness of sleep and repelling bodily nature.


-- All from Saint Isaac the Syrian.


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[zhilan]

Another great quote from my personal favorite Saint, St. Moses (I tried in vain to find a female version of the name Moses for my Chrismation name, but alas, Mosesa just doesn't have much of a ring...) But, as is on his icon,

"I carry behind me my manifold sins where I cannot see them and I come to judge my brother."

Which of course is better in the full context of the story, but so powerful. And St. Moses is a saint in ALL of our Churches (well I'm not 100% on the Anglicans but he prob is) but EO, OO, RCC I know for sure.

[Rowan]

"Unceasing prayer means to have the mind always turned to God with great love, holding alive our hope in Him, having confidence in Him whatever we are doing and whatever happens to us." ~St. Maximus the Confessor


"If a man loves God, he will also love his neighbor; and afterwards his whole heart will overflow with love for animal and the whole of creation." Elder Paisios

And he's not a canonized saint (I think he's still with us :) ), but it's a good quote nonetheless:


Love is not hard - it’s just deadly - in a way that gives us the only life worth having. ~Father Stephen