Saint Quotes

Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.

I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.

I knew a girl so ugly, she had a face like a saint-a Saint Bernard!

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the patience of the Saint Job is needed. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the tenacity of the well tempered steel is needed.

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

We are the nation's watchmen, no other people collectively love the Constitution and honor it and hold it as a divinely inspired document as do the Latter-day Saints.

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves

I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.

The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.

You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.

It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead.

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.