Guest nvzbl Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do his work through me. --James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nvzbl Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nvzbl Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 It is a very great poverty to kill a little child in order that you might live as you wish.-Mother Teresa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionseeker Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 "The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a beaver dam fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." "When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale." "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around." America is the only country ever founded on a creed." - What I Saw In America, 1922 "The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man." - Chapter 19, What I Saw In America, 1922 Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue." "I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess." ( ) "The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis." "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." "The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden." - ILN 1-3-20 "These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." "If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkeness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says that Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by Poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings." Chesterton We are so constituted, that if we insist upon being as sure as is conceivable, in every step of our course, we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar. If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards Newman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionseeker Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 (edited) dp Edited January 16, 2009 by missionseeker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcts Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 [quote name='Saint Therese' post='1752640' date='Jan 16 2009, 12:09 AM']It is a very great poverty to kill a little child in order that you might live as you wish.-Mother Teresa[/quote] I used that quote in a diagnostic essay yesterday! "do not wait for others. do it alone. person to person." -Mother Theresa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 "The Tabernacle is my television."---Bl. Teresa of Calcutta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princessgianna Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 [quote name='Saint Therese' post='1752640' date='Jan 15 2009, 11:09 PM']It is a very great poverty to kill a little child in order that you might live as you wish.-Mother Teresa[/quote] Hey you took the one I was going to use !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinytherese Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 [quote name='dominicansoul' post='1752926' date='Jan 16 2009, 01:04 PM']"The Tabernacle is my television."---Bl. Teresa of Calcutta[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Not exactly famous... "There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions." "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." -GKC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selah Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 "How can you say that there are too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers!" - St. Therese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 [quote]As Our Lord dwells within us, His prayer is ours, and I want to share in it unceasingly, remaining like a little vessel at the spring, at the fountain of life, and so be able to communicate it to others by letting its floods of charity overflow.[/quote] Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 [quote]'Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.'[/quote] [b]Mother Angelica[/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 [quote][b]There occurs to me on this subject a similitude, which is somewhat amusing, my dear Daughters. I remember that Monsieur de Chantal was very fond of lying in bed of a morning; I, having to look after the affairs of the house, was obliged to rise early to give all my orders. When it began to be late, and I had gone back to the bedroom, making noise enough to awaken him, so that Mass might be said in the chapel, and afterwards the remaining affairs might be seen to, I became impatient. I went and drew the bed curtains and called to him that it was late, that he must get up, that the chaplain was vested and was going to begin Mass; at last, I used to take a lighted taper and held it before his eyes, and tormented him so, that at last I used to awaken him and make him get out of bed. What I mean to tell you, by this little story, is that our Lord does the same with us. [/b][/quote] St. Jane Frances de Chantal [url="http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/chantal.html#anchor235528"]other writings, quotes of St. Jane[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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