Saint Quotes

A saint is good when nobody is looking.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

..nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.

Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life.

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

Born a saint, die a sinner - born a sinner, die a saint.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

The Rosary is THE weapon.

All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

My father was a saint. I'm not.

O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power.

Yves Saint Laurent hated fashion. He loved style.

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

Each lost day has its patron saint!

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.