The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the Patron Saint of… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I… — R. C. Sproul, Jr Copy Share Image
The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
We're all saints! We all have built into us this intention, the capacities for kindness and creativity and beauty. It's a matter… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing,… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
For me, Yves Saint Laurent is a hero because he fought his whole life against illness. Maybe the only way to fight… — Jalil Lespert Copy Share Image
There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now. — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort! — John Vianney Copy Share Image
The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean… — William Croswell Doane Copy Share Image
Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it.… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I… — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
“Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.” “Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the day?” “Everyone who didn’t murder anyone, maybe,”… — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
“A man becomes a saint not by conviction that he is better than sinners but by the realization that he is one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image