Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint,… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life… — John Powell Copy Share Image
The patron saint of outlining - the bespectacled siren who sings to me from his spotless rock - is P. G. Wodehouse. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I… — Gemma Galgani Copy Share Image
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never… — Eva Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Counting other peoples sins does not make you a saint. It's easy to judge! Howeveràjudgingàothers will not make us better people and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Christianity is the supernatural operation of the Holy Spirit.The faith once delivered to the saints is a miracle gospel, a miracle salvation… — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I'm a very hopeful and optimistic person. I give plenty of second chances but I'm not a Saint. I have my own… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I just have more Yves Saint Laurent in my closet, but it is pretty much the same - I just wear black… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image