Saint Quotes · Page 25

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer.

— Kenneth Anger

The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

— John of the Cross

“Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.”

— Ezra Pound

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

— Claude Debussy

You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!

— Francis of Assisi

“What matters is the sinner becomes a saint through the grace of salvation in Christ Jesus.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

— George Jones

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his…

— J. C. Ryle

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.

— Krishnananda Saraswati

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

— Matthew Henry

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that…

— John Calvin

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

— Nissim Ezekiel

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

— A.J. Ayer

As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise...a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing…

— Pope Francis

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture…

— Jodi Picoult

The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you…

— Rajneesh

Today is [the feast of] Santa Rita, Patron Saint of impossible things - but this seems impossible: let us ask of her…

— Pope Francis

As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one…

— Thomas Merton

People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers…

— Franz Kafka

Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint…

— William T. Vollmann

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Another form of prayer, called cataphatic, honors and reverences images and feelings and goes through them to God. This form of prayer…

— Gregory A. Boyd

Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are…

— Ernst Junger

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

— Anne Waldman

Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one.

— Rumi

I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.

— John Calipari

Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

— Rumi

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

— Albert Camus

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

— Pope John Paul II

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

— Anne Hutchinson

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

— Madeleine Sophie Barat

“Saintliness means turning pain to good account. It means forcing the devil to be God.”

— Jean Genet

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

— Thomas Fuller

Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint.

— Kim Dickens

Pray to Saint Philomena, What ever you ask from her, She will obtain for you.

— Pope Gregory XVI

If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

— Gemma Galgani

That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.

— Austin O'Malley

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

— Sarah Vowell