Saint Quotes · Page 24

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

— Anthony of Padua

“...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...”

— John Geddes

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

— William Shakespeare

My wife is a saint. She's Gandhi. She walks around in diapers and won't eat.

— Bob Saget

“Why I love Jesus Christ; He saved me from my sins.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

— Ralph Abernathy

For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

— Teresa of Avila

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

— Benedict Joseph Labre

Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds'…

— Anthony of Padua

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the…

— Rumi

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so…

— John Milton

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by…

— Mary McCarthy

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to…

— Aelred of Rievaulx

All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this…

— Dorothy Day

One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such…

— Rabindranath Tagore

A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control…

— Rumi

If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the…

— Harriet Lerner

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest…

— Bertrand Russell

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I…

— Arsene Wenger

When the soul by the Holy Spirit comes to know the Mother of God; when in the Holy Spirit the soul becomes…

— Silouan the Athonite

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between…

— Orson Welles

I am grateful for the unending hunger to rest in the mind of Buddha, the heart of Krishna, a domain where all…

— Rod Stryker

You won't become a saint by studying your Bible; you'll become a saint by living it.

— Leonard Ravenhill

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

— Teresa of Avila

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

— John Vianney

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.”

— Eric Hoffer

We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips.

— Peter Claver

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.

— Dave Snowden

“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Come, O Lord, and stir our hearts. Call us back to yourself. Kindle your fire in us.”

— Saint Augustine of Hippo

A Christian is not his own master, since all his time belongs to God.

— Ignatius of Antioch

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

— Francis of Assisi

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

— William Gurnall

It is loving the Cross that one finds one heart, for Divine Love cannot live without suffering.

— Bernadette Soubirous

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

— Vincent de Paul

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

— Saint Basil

The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.

— Paul of the Cross