Best 650 quotes in «saint quotes» category

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

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.

Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

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

Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

How can we know the living God and attain to everlasting union with God? This is really the only question of life. Kreeft's dialogue with Aquinas shows us what it means--existentially, not solely academically--to learn from a saint.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

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

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint - I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find.

Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

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.

I don't know any saint who wanted to be the patron saint of kissing.

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

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.

If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude.

I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.

If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

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

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint.

If you find a saint who has no sense of humour, then he is not a saint at all. Impossible. His very seriousness says that he has not achieved. Once you have some inner experiences of your own you become very playful, you become very innocent, childlike.

If you learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve him with a wholly pure and detached heart, then you can join with your whole soul in singing the jubilant song of the holy Virgin, “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. For he has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” And like little St. Thérèse you will be able to say at the end, “I do not regret that I have given myself to love.”

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

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!

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

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

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.

I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.

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.

I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people in the world who have such a right to be happy, nor have such cause to be joyful as the saints of the living God.

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.