Saint Quotes
It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.
I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.
If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!
If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!
Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!
I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.
Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.
Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.
The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.
Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.
My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.
When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.
You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.