The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.
Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.
The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.
The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.
