Saint Quotes

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.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

A true Latter–day Saint family is a haven against the storms and struggles of life.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

For me to be a saint means to be myself.

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

What do they not see, who see Him Who sees all things?

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

No great saint lived without errors.

Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.

That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.

A person's destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.

I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

There are no super saints, only those that don't quit.

Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?

Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.

The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.