Best 650 quotes in «saint quotes» category

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible.

The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.

The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency?

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.

The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.

The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.

There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation.

There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit of God, which is the spirit of revelation to every man and woman. It will reveal to them, even in the simplest of matters, what they shall do, by making suggestions to them. We should try to learn the nature of this spirit, that we may understand its suggestions, and then we will always be able to do right. This is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.

There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

There's something about Saint Francis's approach to life, zero expectations but pleasant surprise. In a lot of ways he was a really conflicted person. Some people would say he's masochistic . I don't really know, but I've always loved his reverence and his mindfulness.

There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't know if it helps my research, but I get a big kick out of Mark Twain, who wrote "The Diaries of Adam and Eve." He wrote very funny stuff on them. I sometimes read things that are loosely related to what I'm thinking and writing about.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

There will be no sickness for the saint of God. ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.

The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

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

The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.