Saint Quotes · Page 12

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.”

— Munia Khan

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

— Teresa of Avila

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

— Brigham Young

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.

— Teresa of Avila

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

— Indira Gandhi

Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit.

— Saint Lucy

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

Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his…

— Kanye West

Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have…

— George Orwell

We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to…

— Herbert Lockyer

What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.

— Ambrose

Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope…

— St. Vincent

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will…

— Saint Augustine

Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see…

— Jim Butcher

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

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

— Philip Yancey

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just,…

— Alexander Pope

And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together…

— Billy Collins

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

— Oswald Chambers

Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life…

— Dorothy Day

If the Latter-day Saints will walk up to their privileges, and exercise faith in the name of Jesus Christ, and live in…

— Brigham Young

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

— Simone Weil

I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.

— Allen Ginsberg

Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.

— Pope Gregory I

Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

— Anonymous

The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.

— Tito Colliander

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

— Ignatius of Loyola

“The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.”

— Philippa Gregory

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

— Minna Antrim

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.

— Max Lucado

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

— Margaret Mary Alacoque

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.

— Melanie Laurent

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

— Pope Pius X

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

— Saint Francis de Sales

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

— George Herbert

“It could be a true future that Ilven saw—she’s a Saint after all. Was . Was a Saint.”

— Cat Hellisen