She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“And anyway, it has been my experience that what makes us the saints of God is not our ability to be saintly… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“I understood this man was a Saint," he said. "Something even rarer," said Dr. Urbino, "An atheistic saint. But those are matters… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Behold, for years and generations, the way of God has been leveled by the cross and by death. How is this with… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
I wish that every Latter-day Saint could say and mean it with all his heart: 'I'll go where you want me to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
I am a man who has spent more than half a century ostensibly and visibly accompanying Yves Saint Laurent throughout his life… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the… — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary. — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
