WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME A SAINT? WHAT ROLE DO SAINTS PLAY IN OUR LIVES? Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses [saints], let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. ----Hebrews 12:1 The saints live not after the fashion of the world… The dignity of the saints is so great because they are not of this world, but “of the household of God.” --- St. Thomas Aquinas If you wish to be a saint, it is very easy…aim only at pleasing Jesus, at uniting yourself intimately with Him. --- St. Therese of Lisieux, Complete Spiritual Doctrine of St. Therese of Lisieux Who goes to Heaven? Saints. In biblical language, all the saved are saints. So what is a saint? A saint is fundamentally one who loves God with his whole heart, and his neighbor as himself. Love from a simple, single pure heart – that is all God wants. Jesus said so. That’s all. --- Peter Kreeft, Making Choices – Practical wisdom for everyday moral decisions However different the saints may be, they have two things in common: their awareness that they owe everything to God, and their efforts to respond, throughout their lives, to the love God has for them. Saints are models of Christian life. --- Credo, A Catholic Catechism Paul has called all Christians saints because through faith and baptism they are set apart and belong to Christ (Romans 1:7). When we speak of saints today we mean those extraordinary people who take their Christian faith very seriously and model their lives unreservedly on it. --- Credo, A Catholic Catechism
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