Saint Quotes · Page 13

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

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

“Sweetwater, West Virginia, a lowly site for a saint, but no lowlier than a straw-lined manger.”

— Marie Manilla

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Leon Bloy

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

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

— Pope John Paul II

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their…

— Wilfrid Sheed

In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…

— Howard W. Hunter

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly…

— William Gilmore Simms

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

Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates…

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

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

— Anais Nin

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

Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us…

— Brigham Young

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

— Danny Glover

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

— Criss Jami

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Pope Gregory I

The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.

— Wei Wu Wei

..nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.

— Sylvia Day

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

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

— Timothy Keller

In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

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

— Christopher Risso-gill

The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine

— Cassandra Clare

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

— Francis of Assisi

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

— Teresa of Avila

“to become a great saint, it is no bad first step to be a big sinner.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

— Albert Schweitzer