Saint Quotes

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.

You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return.

No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

A Christian is not his own master, since all his time belongs to God.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.

What does it take to become a saint? Will it.

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

If you correspond to the designs of God, He will make a saint of you.

Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

Whenever I have a problem, I ask the Saint (Thérèse of Lisieux) not to solve it, but to take it into her hands and to help me accept it and I almost always receive a white rose as a sign.

The great thing is to become Saints.

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.

I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ.

Christianity is the supernatural operation of the Holy Spirit.The faith once delivered to the saints is a miracle gospel, a miracle salvation with physical evidences.

Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.