Best 650 quotes in «saint quotes» category

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

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ultimate goal is to become a saint.

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?

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

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.

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