Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial; force it to answer the interrogatories… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's not always that easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. Sinners can surprise you. And the same is… — Mary Alice Copy Share Image
I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility. — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
The saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am grateful for the unending hunger to rest in the mind of Buddha, the heart of Krishna, a domain where all… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We're not saints, any of us. Maybe somebody is, but I don't know those people. But we all know people who behave… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime. — Irma S. Rombauer Copy Share Image
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
