Saint Quotes

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

I'm a stickler about never going to bed with makeup on. Like, all I can hear is my pores screaming, "Nooooooo!" So I'm a saint when it comes to cleansing.

I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

I #‎ forgive not because I became a saint, but because I'm tired of hating.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth.