Saint Quotes · Page 21

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

— Dorothy Day

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

— Philip Neri

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

— Peter Kreeft

“The woman was either a saint or a total masochist.”

— Jess Raven

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

— Coco Chanel

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

— Peter Kreeft

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.

— Teresa of Avila

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

— Brigham Young

The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the…

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

— John Lancaster Spalding

“The man possessed a communal strength of body and soul, coupled with endless compassion and a desire to help the less fortunate…

— Mary Campisi

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise…

— Sivananda

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to…

— Stanley Kunitz

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City…

— Anonymous

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as…

— Robert A. Heinlein

In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In…

— Walter Scott

The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have…

— Swami Vivekananda

We must never underestimate the power of the prayer that is lifted up by wonderful saints all around the world. Prayer is…

— Will Graham

When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ…

— James Russell Lowell

Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How…

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a…

— Maeve Binchy

“Go towards God NOW. Remember – even a Saint cannot reclaim a wasted minute.”

— George King

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

— Teresa of Avila

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.”

— Munia Khan

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

— Anonymous

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

— Ann Landers

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a King to his knees. Grace Willows To Kiss a king”

— Julie Brookshier

...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...

— Rachel Vincent

“One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.”

— Idries Shah

I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.

— Ingrid Bergman

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

— Evelyn Waugh

Admired as a saint, defined by my rank. Combined with my strength, my time and my length.

— Lil Wayne

All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.

— Alphonsus Liguori

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

— Charles Churchill

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

— Bernadette Devlin