Saint Quotes

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

What do you possess if you possess not God?

Every Saint belongs to the court of the Queen of All Saints.

Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.

Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

There's nothing that really motivates me anymore and demands that I get up in the morning. In the past it was Yves Saint Laurent.

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

Mount Calvary is the academy of love.

I'm no saint but I do believe in what is right.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

Who teaches the soul if not God?

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine

Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.

People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.

The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

You should be dynamic, and still be soft in the heart. You should stand against injustice and simultaneously, be compassionate within you, like a saint. Be a saint and a soldier, together

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.

Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible.