Saint Quotes

I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

I'm an angel not a frickin' saint.

I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

Saints can spring from any soil.

Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days

Will not the Lord hear my prayers and listen to my cries as soon as he ever did to theirs [the ancient saints'] if I come to him in the manner they did?

Katrina was one of those things that rips the clothes off of the guy who keeps saying he's a saint, and underneath you see that he's a monster.

You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

Personally, I like to start my day off as a Saint and graduate to my Sinner self!

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.

I don't know any saint who wanted to be the patron saint of kissing.

Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her.

You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death.

Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit of Him.

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.