Best 650 quotes in «saint quotes» category

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

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

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.

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

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

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

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.

My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength.... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.

My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

My style is a mix and match of everything. Like I said, It's Play Cloths, it's Saint Laurent, and I know I sort of won when everything can be understated, it can be three different brands, and you can't really see what it is and then you just ask, "Well damn that looks good, what is that?

My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I said figure out some way, I just want to play a scene with this woman. But there was no way to make it work.

My wife is a saint. She's Gandhi. She walks around in diapers and won't eat.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

No one heals himself by wounding another.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all.

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

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

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world.