Saint Quotes

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

Suffering saints are living seed.

Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

I'm far from a saint.

President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives."

The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.

The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there!

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?

Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

Saints are usually killed by their own people.

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.

I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ.

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.

You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.

Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.

Such a Saint, such an offering.

Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.

The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.