Saint Quotes · Page 14

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

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

— George Herbert

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

— Josemaria Escriva

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

I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint,…

— Poppy Z. Brite

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint…

— Gertrude Stein

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint…

— Josemaria Escriva

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives…

— Smith Wigglesworth

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

We too can be saints in our family, in our neighborhood, wherever we live and work. Be a person who listens to…

— Pope Francis

If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational…

— Howard Gardner

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate…

— William James

He who thinks that he is finished is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way.…

— Anonymous

What do they not see, who see Him Who sees all things?

— Pope Gregory I

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

— William Barclay

I replaced Jim Garner in 'Maverick.' I replaced George Sanders in 'The Saint.' I've replaced everybody.

— Roger Moore

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

— Saint Francis de Sales

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

— Anonymous

I wear a lot of Saint Laurent because it's so classic rock star.

— Matty Healy

Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

— Louis de Montfort

“It's easy to be a saint when all you've known is the good.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

— Vivian Vande Velde

The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.

— Francis of Paola

“every sinner has a future and every saint has past”

— Wanjiru Njagi

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

— Moliere

To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.

— Josemaria Escriva

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

— Katharine Tynan

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

— Edith Wharton

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

— Kenneth Rexroth