Saint Quotes · Page 13

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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