Benedict Joseph Labre Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.”
-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Thinking Quotes #Flames Quotes #Trying Quotes
“'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'”
-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Soul Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Examination Quotes
“We offend God because we do not know His greatness.”
-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Greatness Quotes #Saint Quotes
“However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.”
-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Jesus Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Saint Quotes
“The poor should live by alms.”
-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Poor Quotes #Alms Quotes #Should Quotes
“God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.”
-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Religious Quotes #Affliction Quotes #Care Quotes
“I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.”
-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Fall Quotes #Winter Quotes #Soul Quotes
“He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.”
-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Study Quotes #Sin Quotes #Knows Quotes

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”
“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.”
“Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.”
“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

Source : Misattributed to Tocqueville. "The Tocqueville Fraud" by John Pitney, www.weeklystandard.com. November 12, 1995.
“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”
“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
“I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.”
“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”

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