Saint Quotes · Page 11

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

— Stanley Hauerwas

To saints, their very slumber is a prayer.

— Anonymous

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

— Pope Pius X

Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.

— George Herbert

Where sin was hatched, let tears now wash the nest.

— Robert Southwell

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

— Pope Gregory I

I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.

— Teresa of Avila

For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

— Therese of Lisieux

Good morning to the day: and next, my gold! - / Open the shrine that I may see my saint.

— Ben Jonson

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in…

— Joseph Heller

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

— Therese of Lisieux

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

— Charles Churchill

Admired as a saint, defined by my rank. Combined with my strength, my time and my length.

— Lil Wayne

Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are all driven by our personal realities. Otherwise you are a saint or someone who has dedicated their lives to activism.

— Sayani Gupta

Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect,…

— Scotty McCreery

God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.'…

— Oswald Chambers

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite…

— Gregory Maguire

The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an…

— Alphonsus Liguori

“St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes. But no cause is lost if there is still one person devoted to…

— Corey Taylor

We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in…

— Anais Nin

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and…

— Charles Fort

I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to…

— Anonymous

Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event,…

— Aldous Huxley

When I think of the Savior, I often picture Him with hands outstretched, reaching out to comfort, heal, bless, and love. And…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we…

— William Shakespeare

It is true to say that for me sanctity consists in being myself and for you sanctity consists of being yourself and…

— Thomas Merton

So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating…

— Michael Hudson

If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the…

— Harriet Lerner

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest…

— Bertrand Russell

When the soul by the Holy Spirit comes to know the Mother of God; when in the Holy Spirit the soul becomes…

— Silouan the Athonite

“Nash and Saint’s story to be continued .”

— Jay Crownover

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

— Leon Bloy

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

— Criss Jami

“It was the confession of a saint. -Martin Ladvenu”

— Susan Banfield

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

— Pope Gregory I

You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief

— Stephen Kellogg

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world.

— Saint Dominic

“saints always have a past and sinners always have a future,”

— Christopher Risso-gill