Saint Quotes · Page 22

But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these…

— Joanna Macy

The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing…

— Lorenzo Snow

I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that…

— John Travolta

The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.

— John Vianney

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

— Bridget of Sweden

Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?

— Gerard Majella

As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an…

— Susan Cain

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.

— Anonymous

Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys.…

— Carine Roitfeld

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house…

— Michael Smith

The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led…

— Leon Morris

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

— Melanie Laurent

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast.…

— Leopold Stokowski

When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come…

— Jeremiah Burroughs

Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do…

— Anonymous

Saints are usually killed by their own people.

— Eric Sevareid

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love.

— Paul of the Cross

The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which…

— Hannah More

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

— Indira Gandhi

The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best.…

— Frederick Buechner

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

— Charles Baudelaire

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

— Paramahansa Yogananda