Saint Quotes · Page 26

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

— Saint Augustine

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

— Peter Kreeft

Jailbait," he declared, leaping up. "You're a saint. A goddess, even.

— Richelle Mead

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

— Ellis Peters

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

— Jane Frances de Chantal

If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.

— Janadas Devan

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead.

— Mark Hart

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body…

— John Eudes

The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a…

— John of the Cross

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other…

— Stephen King

If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you…

— Brigham Young

The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there…

— Anthony of Padua

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

— Joanne Harris

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

— Thomas Brooks

“I agree that every saint has a past, but not that every sinner has a future. In this life we see a…

— Criss Jami

A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?"…

— Anthony de Mello

Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for…

— St. Vincent

Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color…

— Carl De Keyzer

Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes,…

— Henri Nouwen

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because…

— Bill Vaughan

Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

— Thomas Hood

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

— Tess Gerritsen

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

— Leslie Charteris

Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!

— Carrie Nation

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

— David Maraniss

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

— Thomas Aquinas

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

— Pope Francis

Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.

— Philip Neri

Sometimes you have to fight off the devil with the demon an be a saint.

— Simpleman

“So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.”

— Rachel Caine

I knew a girl so ugly, she had a face like a saint-a Saint Bernard!

— Rodney Dangerfield

Every pious person has a past, and every sinner has a future.

— Anonymous

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

— Saadi

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

— Leon Bloy