But the saint would laugh at them scornfully and say, " If any of you have any authority over me, only one would have been sufficient to fight me.

The conclave that elected him had lasted for six months, and he is reported to have said to the cardinals: " If you wish to elect a saint, choose Gotti ; a statesman, Aldrovandi ; an honest man, me ".

If the feast day falls on a Sunday, it is observed on the next available day, usually Monday, March 20, unless another solemnity ( e. g., a church's patronal saint ) falls on that day.

If there is reason to believe that the departed is a saint, the remains may be placed in a reliquary ; otherwise the bones are usually mingled together ( skulls together in one place, long bones in another, etc .).

As a " starving actor " Thomas made a vow: If he found success, he would open a shrine dedicated to St Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes.

If so, it has remained far more secret and " esoteric " than in any of the other great spiritual traditions of the world, so much so that its existence is highly doubtful ..." The Welsh writer Norman Lewis, in his celebrated account of life in Naples in 1944, claimed that San Rocco was the patron saint of coitus reservatus: " I recommended him to drink -- as the locals did -- marsala with the yolk of eggs stirred into it, and to wear a medal of San Rocco, patron of coitus reservatus, which could be had in any religious-supplies shop ".

Shortly after 1362, the future saint Jeanne-Marie de Maillé reported a vision of Yves ( and an ecstasy, raptus ), during which he told her, " If you are willing to abandon the world, you will taste here on earth the joys of heaven.

If Schlick's parents followed the contemporary German custom to name children after the saint on whose day they were born, Schlick must have been born on July 18, St. Arnold's day.

As Brusca juggled the burning image in his hands, Riina said to him: " If you betray Cosa Nostra, your flesh will burn like this saint.

If this fails to work, the saint is punished, by making the icon face the wall, and putting the heat on by placing the lit candle at the back of the icon.

If the feast has the rank of " memorial ", any parts specifically provided for the saint ( the " proper " parts ) are used, while the other parts come from the weekday, with exception of the hymn ( which may be optionally taken from the common texts ), the antiphon for the Benedictus ( which must be taken from the proper or the common ), the intercession ( which may be optionally taken from the common texts ), and the closing prayer ( which should be proper, or if missing, common ).

" If I do not become a saint when I am young ", he used to say " I shall never become one ".

If the defaced or vandalized object is considered holy by Christians, such as the Bible, the Cross, or an image of Christ or a saint, the case becomes that of desecration.

Commenting on the Templeton Prize award to Taylor, the United Kingdom ’ s Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks said, “ If there is such a thing as a saint in a secular age, he deserves that title ”.

If someone is named after a saint, then there is a big celebration on his or her name day.

When he had abandoned all hope, a saint ( Mar Sergius or Saint Sergius who is elsewhere acredited with converting the Keraits ) appeared in a vision and said, " If you will believe in Christ, I will lead you lest you perish.

:" If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do, in the field of metaphysics, is to study the works of those who were, and who, because they had modified their merely human mode of being, were capable of a more than merely human kind and amount of knowledge.

Gotti was seen as a serious contender to be elected Pope at the Papal conclave of 1740, when Cardinal Lambertini said to the College of Cardinals " If you wish to elect a saint, choose Gotti ; a statesman, Aldrovandi ; an honest man, me ".

If the player fails in a quest relating to the Sage of Peace, they can travel west to " the saint of Vulture Peak " ( found in Chrysoprais ) to seek redemption and enlightenment.

If she did, he could stand it better in the light.

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.

If they do as well as they did in 1960 there can be no complaint.

If, in the trustee's judgment, `` reasonable market conditions '' did not prevail during any given year, he was to be allowed to petition the court for an extension of time within the ten-year period.

If one assumes that the average flux did not change between measurements, a mass-distribution curve is obtained which relates the flux of particles larger than a given radius to the inverse 7/2 power of the radius.

If the bottom name in each column did not have a responsible executive identified, the next name above which identified such a responsible executive was substituted.

If we did not mean to say this, why should we be so relieved on finding that the suffering had not occurred??

If so, are you saying, `` Where did the last few years go??

If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.

If Bridget did get any bundles of cash, the last person who would have rewarded her for services rendered would have been Lizzie Borden.

If that's all the Romans did, it's a surprise to me that Rome fell.

If laying ties on a railroad track, which he once did for $1 an hour, paid more than playing right field for the Yankees, Maris would lay ties on a railroad track.

If working in a zinc mine, which he once did for 87-1/2 cents an hour, paid more than playing center field for the Yankees, Mantle would work in a zinc mine.

If this is true, then the universe today looks just as it did millions of years ago and as it will look millions of years hence, even though the universe is expanding.

a Portago could say, as he did say to me, `` If I die tomorrow, still I have had twenty-eight wonderful years ; ;

If he died before she did, she would never be unable to resist opening it.

If he ever did such a thing again she'd die of shame.

If the authorities remarked on her curious avocation, they did so among themselves.

If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.

If that did not work, then Abd al-Rahman would have to be killed.