Saint Quotes

This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

I am a count, not a saint.

Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.

I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been prowling this wilderness since he was 16 years old.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

My wife is a saint. She's Gandhi. She walks around in diapers and won't eat.

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever.

I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test

It's hard to be a saint in the city.

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint." -Della

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.