Saints didn’t set out to have everyone follow them. Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp. The real heroes, the real celebrities, are the saints. We’re on the field and the stands are packed with the saints who are constantly rooting us on. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven. Take courage! Fix your gaze on our saints. All goods look better when they look like gifts. The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. The saints are the only really happy people on earth.

If you are what you should be, you will set the world on fire. It’s much easier to become an apologist or a philosopher or a theologian. It’s too bad there isn’t an easier way, because becoming a saint is not the easiest thing in the world. When she came to the National Prayer Breakfast and lectured President Clinton about abortion, he had nothing to say to her. You can refute arguments but not her life. I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. In one way or another, holiness is always the way of the cross. If you will look into your own heart in complete honesty, you must admit that there is one and only one reason why you are not a saint: you do not wholly want to be one.ĭo you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?īe not afraid! Open wide the doors to Christ!ĭo not be afraid to become the saints of the new millennium!

There is only one tragedy in the end: Not to have been a saint.Īt some point you’ve gotta do more than just flirt with Jesus.

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