Saint Quotes · Page 12

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

— Charles Baudelaire

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

— Pope Clement I

Personally, I like to start my day off as a Saint and graduate to my Sinner self!

— Kat Von D

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

— Anne Rice

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

— Martin of Tours

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

— Alexander Pope

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

— Anton Chekhov

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate…

— Hugh Walpole

Counting other peoples sins does not make you a saint. It's easy to judge! Howeveràjudgingàothers will not make us better people and…

— Anonymous

If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I…

— Gemma Galgani

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life…

— John Powell

The patron saint of outlining - the bespectacled siren who sings to me from his spotless rock - is P. G. Wodehouse.

— Ben Dolnick

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never…

— Charles Spurgeon

He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will…

— Frances Osborne

As you go forth and share our core beliefs and the fruits of our doctrines, misperceptions will dissolve, prejudices will diminish, and…

— Quentin L. Cook

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

Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the…

— Taylor Caldwell

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“If you're all grown up, as you insist, then you're old enough to recognize heat between a man and a woman. And…

— M.J. Scott

The world would have you believe that you are of worth only if you have money, a certain physical appearance, stylish clothes,…

— Elaine L. Jack

The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him…

— Saint Basil

Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.

— Walter Cradock

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

— Ellis Peters

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes from within our power.

— Saint Francis de Sales

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

— Oswald Chambers

The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

— Charles Colson

It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

— Ephrem the Syrian

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

— Rose of Lima

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

— Nan Goldin

Born a saint, die a sinner - born a sinner, die a saint.

— Douglas Horton

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

— Jim Steranko

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

— Iggy Pop

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

— Gertrude Stein

Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.

— Laetitia Casta

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

— Oswald Chambers

You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ.

— Frank E. Gaebelein