Saint Quotes · Page 9

We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

— Benedict Joseph Labre

The saints are in the black list.

— Ilkin Santak

I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.

— Ray Romano

“You're not a saint. You're a demon. Own up to it.”

— Julie Kagawa

Such a Saint, such an offering.

— George Herbert

Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

— John Milton

Saints are usually killed by their own people.

— Eric Sevareid

Jack Paar was my first TV patron saint.

— Nipsey Russell

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

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Elizabeth Barton

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

A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys…

— St. Vincent

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

— Frederick Buechner

What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good…

— Thomas Merton

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never…

— Martin Wolf

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but…

— Ralph Abernathy

I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think…

— Mia Wasikowska

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.

— Rollo May

Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes,…

— Mother Teresa

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning…

— Alexander Hamilton

Over the last 2,000 years, 10,000 saints have been named, among them, 78 popes. At the time of his death, Pope John…

— Chris Matthews

Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get…

— Heber J. Grant

Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him…

— Rajneesh

I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was…

— Shelley Fabares

If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith…

— Philip Yancey

Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Who teaches the soul if not God?

— John of the Cross

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

— Francis Bacon

I am not a perfect saint, by any means.

— Jason Becker

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

— Publilius Syrus

What does it take to become a saint? Will it.

— Thomas Aquinas

God asks little, but He gives much.

— Saint John Chrysostom

It's hard to be a saint in the city.

— Bruce Springsteen

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

— Paramahansa Yogananda