Best 650 quotes in «saint quotes» category

Truth cannot enter a virtuous soul without illuminating it.

Truth is a liar's enemy, but a saint's friend.

Truth is an honest saint; ignorance is a helpless scholar; knowledge is a kind sage.

Truth is a saints friend, but a liars enemy.

Truth is the world's oldest saint, pride is the world's oldest sinner, and love is the world's oldest sage.

Truth is the world's oldest saint; virtue is the world's oldest sage.

We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.

We are moved by self-interest, even when we seek to do good to others.

We designate the spirit of the well as 'she' because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not invariably. She appears in many guises - ghost, witch, saint, mermaid, fairy, and sometimes in animal form, often as a sacred fish - and her presence permeates well lore, and indeed water lore generally.

What matters is the sinner becomes a saint through the grace of salvation in Christ Jesus.

When we understand that Peace is a state of mind we understand true Peace.

When you deeply love someone from that space that is beyond attachment to certain projections or desires, when you love someone just deeply, totally, completely, without any games that the mind or emotions play, then that love remains eternal in the heavens forever, and that is what pulls you back to remembering that love.

When you master the past, you are a scholar. When you master the present, you are a saint. When you master the future, you are a sage.

Why I love Jesus Christ; He saved me from my sins.

Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.

Yet I have to wonder if I have lost the song because I have become the song. If I have lost my Lord because I do indeed desire to be what I will become. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.

You are a cool cemetery. You have the sinner’s grave You have the saint’s earth colliding You have all the beds narrow as a knife; as if a rally of tombstones to defend death. But you can’t really postpone the inauguration of my burial, can you? From the poem - Few Words to Cemetery

You can’t do this,’ I said, though I had nothing whatsoever to back up my statement. ‘Why not? I seem to have an army behind me.’ ‘We have a Saint,’ Brasti said, pointing at Kest. ‘Your Saint seems to be unconscious,’ the Duke replied.

You know what I am - I am the same thing that you are. I am the torch, as well as the torch-bearer - I am harmony, as well as the advocate of harmony - I am progress, as well as the driver of progress - I am humanity's beacon of oneness - I am humanity's struggle for equality - I am humanity's fight for justice - and this is not I speaking to you, this is you speaking to yourself - for you and I are not separate, but one eternal all-encompassing reflection that has the potential to resonate through the chambers of time, once it recognizes, realizes and utilizes its reverberating responsibilities towards the world it's born in.

You see, my son,” continues Kolbe softly, “the saints are not so different than you or me. Their stories reveal them to be very much human. However, this frailty does not weaken their witness or holiness, but rather extends to us the invitation to the same life amid our own frailty.

You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake.

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

Whenever there is an uprising of misery, discrimination and sectarianism - whenever there is an upheaval in human dignity, goodness, unity and uniformity - whenever the primitive urge for judgement overwhelms the humane quality of understanding - whenever the light of truth begins to scare the people more than the darkness of ignorance, and whenever humankind begins to forget its innate humanity, I shall rise from the deepest fathoms of the neuronal galaxy in one brain or another, over and over again, to take humanity with me in the path of sweet, innocent, self-aware, non-conflicting and progressive harmony.

When Mary has struck her roots in a soul, she produces there marvels of grace, which she alone can produce, because she alone is the fruitful Virgin who never has had, and never will have, her equal in purity and in fruitfulness.

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!