Saint Quotes · Page 23

Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them

— John Bosco

I once stumped Jimmy Buffett by calling him a saint.

— Jonathan Miles

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

— Irma S. Rombauer

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

— Margaret Atwood

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

— Thomas Aquinas

Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.

— Therese of Lisieux

My family come from Antigua, my mother was born in Saint Kitts.

— Andi Oliver

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

— Erich Fromm

I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby

— Anonymous

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

— Alphonsus Liguori

It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into…

— Tim LaHaye

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of…

— Teresa of Avila

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he…

— Clifford Geertz

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of…

— Oscar Wilde

I love guys who know how to dress. I love the motorcycle boots, and I love the skinnier jeans with jackets and…

— Ashley Benson

A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No,…

— Gautama Buddha

Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both…

— Laini Taylor

We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of…

— Pope John Paul II

Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us…

— Charles Spurgeon

When later he [St. Joseph] carried the Child in his arms, acts of loving faith welled up constantly in his heart. It…

— Peter Julian Eymard

But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to…

— Jay-Z

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His…

— John Cassian

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

— Elizabeth Barton

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

— Martin of Tours

Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.

— Walter Cradock

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

— Anton Chekhov

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

— Alexander Pope

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

— Pope Clement I

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

— Charles Baudelaire

You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.

— John Vianney

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

— Charles Caleb Colton

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

— Anne Rice

Personally, I like to start my day off as a Saint and graduate to my Sinner self!

— Kat Von D

“The saint who satisfies the heart of Jesus will make other saints strong and mature for God.”

— Oswald Chambers

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

— Nelson Mandela

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

— Peter Shaffer