Saint Quotes · Page 20

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

— Dorothy Day

If you correspond to the designs of God, He will make a saint of you.

— Paul of the Cross

All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.

— Stephen Rodrick

“You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.”

— Peter Kreeft

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

— Evelyn Underhill

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

— Jim Steranko

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Born a saint, die a sinner - born a sinner, die a saint.

— Douglas Horton

The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through…

— Mother Teresa

God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge…

— Teresa of Avila

They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.

— John of the Cross

On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings…

— Jimmy Carter

Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small…

— William Faulkner

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very…

— Thomas Merton

I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have…

— George Orwell

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists…

— John le Carre

Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you…

— Susan Griffin

Among the immediate obligations and duties resting upon members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today, and one of…

— David O. McKay

The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died…

— George Eliot

Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of…

— Swami Vivekananda

These symbolize (Proverbs 30:14) the greedy and usurers whose teeth are swords and knifes which they use to devour the poor and…

— Anthony of Padua

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

— Nan Goldin

You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ.

— Frank E. Gaebelein

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

— Brennan Manning

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Iggy Pop

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

— Gertrude Stein

Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.

— Laetitia Casta

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes from within our power.

— Saint Francis de Sales

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

— Ellis Peters

It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

— Ephrem the Syrian

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

— Rose of Lima

The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

— Charles Colson

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

— Oswald Chambers

“A thief who promises you the world is no better than a saint who denies you the universe.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

— Evelyn Underhill

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

— Philip Neri