I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's comment that "saints always have a past and sinners always have a future," so… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Therefore let the Saints be diligent in building the Temple, and all houses which they have been, or shall hereafter be, commanded… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
I wish that every Latter-day Saint could say and mean it with all his heart: 'I'll go where you want me to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I am a man who has spent more than half a century ostensibly and visibly accompanying Yves Saint Laurent throughout his life… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
Behold, for years and generations, the way of God has been leveled by the cross and by death. How is this with… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
As Latter-day Saints, we need not look like the world. We need not entertain like the world. Our personal habits should be… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
When you are in the temple, remember that you are in the living presence of the Lord God, that you stand before… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made… — Clare of Assisi Copy Share Image
It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I’ll give you everything until I collapse. That’s not in any… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
![“When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who…” quote by Jeremiah Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1df/jeremiah-burroughs-16546_action_when-the-saints-perform-actions-to-god-t_813190.jpg)
![“I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I’ll give you everything until I collapse. That’s not in any ’Look at me, I’m a saint’ kind of way. It’s very selfish in a way. I’m doing this really awesome exploration, and it’s like a drug, because I completely disappear.” quote by Ellen Page](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7d9/ellen-page-2745_acting_i-just-love-it-so-much-acting-when-i-get_1143819.jpg)
