What the Saints Never Said: Pious Misquotes and the Subtle Heresies They Teach You

by Trent Horn

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"God helps those who help themselves." - The Bible? "Preach the gospel always; when necessary, use words." - St. Francis of Assisi? Sayings like these are such a part of modern pious tradition that we assume they come from the Bible, the mouths of saints, or the pens of famous Christian writers. In What the Saints Never Said, apologist Trent Horn takes over forty of these well-known but dubious sayings and attempts to track them to their true source. In so doing he finds some that are close show more to what was really said, many that were mis-attributed or twisted beyond their original meaning, and more than a few that were just plain made up Trent Horn sets the record straight, show less

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Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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270.092ReligionHistory of ChristianityHistory, geographic treatment, biography of ChristianityHistory of ChristianityBiography And HistoryBiography
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BX4661 .H676Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionChristian DenominationsChristian DenominationsCatholic ChurchBiography and portraitsCollectiveSaints and martyrs
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