Best 650 quotes in «saint quotes» category

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

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.

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

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

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.

The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.

The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.