Best 650 quotes in «saint quotes» category

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

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

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.

It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.

It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

It should be recognized that this Church is not a social club. This is the kingdom of God on the earth. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Its purpose is to bring salvation and exaltation to both the living and the dead.

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.

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.

It's the ultimate for me not to see how it's made. I find it vulgar when you can distinguish how something is made. I used to be a student at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris, and once I got to go to a Saint Laurent couture show. Everyone was always talking about how fabulous the tailoring was, but I was transfixed by this one particular dress. It was just a piece of fabric, but as the model was walking, you didn't know how she got into it, how it closed, where the seams were, and that, for me, was perfection. It stayed with me as a lifelong vision.

It's why this election was HORRIBLE. It was either Hilary is the devil and Trump a saint. Or Trump the devil and Hilary a saint. Can't we all have a decent, civil conversation without throwing "shade?

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

I've already bought another house in Tangier and the one in Deauville has been for sale for some time. As for Yves's Saint Laurent apartment, it is being sold because he's dead. But I won't be furnishing my home from Ikea.

I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

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

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of The Saint. He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to work with.

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he knew Islamic theology and jurisprudence very well. He knew Persian, Arabic and Turkish, which was coming into Anatolia at that time, very well. He was a remarkable, remarkable scholar, besides being a great saint.

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

Le silence est la plus grande perse  cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.

Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

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

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.

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

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

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

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

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

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.

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.