Saint Quotes · Page 22

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

— Mark Hart

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

— Jessamyn West

“When God makes the saint, he does not unmake the man.”

— Jeffrey Tiel

Good morning to the day: and next, my gold! - / Open the shrine that I may see my saint.

— Ben Jonson

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

— Samuel Rutherford

The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ.

— Benny Hinn

Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent; got kiss myself I'm so pretty.

— Bruno Mars

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His…

— John Keble

She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she…

— Taylor Swift

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

— Anthony de Mello

The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given…

— Richard Alleine

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.

— Pope Pius XII

If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give…

— Mother Teresa

'Eat my flesh,' Jesus says, 'and drink my blood.' The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh…

— Clement of Alexandria

America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people,…

— Marianne Williamson

If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of…

— Frederick William Robertson

And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer…

— Colleen Atwood

In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine…

— Steven Pinker

“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming,…

— Philippe Claudel

One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children,"…

— Anne Waldman

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient…

— Phyllis McGinley

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

— Andrew Young

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

— William Mountford

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

— Georgette Heyer

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

— Bridget of Sweden

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

— Indira Gandhi

Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.

— Paulinus of Nola

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

— George Bernard Shaw

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.

— Charles Barkley

One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.

— Saint Francis de Sales

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

— Saint John Chrysostom

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

— Saint Augustine

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

— Bella Freud

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

— Vincent de Paul

The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.

— David A. Bednar

“I’m a fucking saint,” he said as he pulled out the bed from the sofa. “A saint with blue-balls.” As”

— Darien Cox