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The Wisdom of the Saints: An Anthology

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作者：Jill Haak Adels 著

出版社：Oxford University Press, USA

出版时间：1989-06-15

I S B N：9780195059151

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"A rich and varied sampling of Christian concerns and interpretations over the centuries."--Church History"A treasure chest filled with great thoughts, quotes, and inspiration for all people....It offers a fantastic view of the Church and all of its unique saints."--The Catholic Observer"A lively anthology with a rich antiphony of voices."--Library Journal"A rich collection of brief selections from the writings and sayings of saints from the early Fathers to the saints of our own day....The editor has read widely and picked sayings that are interesting and piquant, so that the reader can make many new and unsuspected friends."--America"A rich collection of brief selections from the writings and sayings of saints from the early Fathers to the saints of our own day."--America"This beautiful anthology brings together hundreds of sayings from saints and blesseds, both famous and obscure."--Spiritual Life"The book will be at home on the shelf of preachers, teachers, catechists, and those just looking for sources of daily inspiration."--Religious Studies Review"Attractive....[A] fine collection."--The Christian Century

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Covering over two thousand years of Church history, this unique anthology presents hundreds of aphoristic sayings from the writings and recorded works of both famous and obscure saints. Ranging from the polished literary statements of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists, to the cry of the martyr on the scaffold, these quotations treat a wide variety of themes such as joy, death, faith, hope, folly, and much more. The volume includes diary notations, lists of personal resolutions, naive remarks of saintly children who have foreseen their own destiny, and the half-legendary utterances of early miracle-working saints of Ireland and the misty northern forests. It offers the wisdom of European, African, and Japanese saints, as well as an appendix of biographical sketches. Despite the diversity of the individuals represented--hermits and Popes, the urbane and the uncouth, the sensible and the passionately foolish--this book uncovers a degree of harmony of thought among all of the saints included here. By bringing the saints to life, this collection reminds us that they were real people--not a group of museum figures carved in marble--with a range of temperaments and personalities.