Saint Quotes · Page 13

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

— Brennan Manning

“If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity.

— Mother Angelica

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

— Evelyn Underhill

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

— Dorothy Day

All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.

— Stephen Rodrick

“You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.”

— Peter Kreeft

If you correspond to the designs of God, He will make a saint of you.

— Paul of the Cross

I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint,…

— Poppy Z. Brite

His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of…

— Teresa of Avila

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and…

— Janet Fitch

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is…

— Robert Bellarmine

No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned…

— Christopher Pike

Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into…

— Thomas Watson

... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but…

— John Cassian

To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare…

— Libbie Block

The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.…

— Laura Whitcomb

We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the…

— Julian Huxley

Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how…

— Paul of the Cross

We declare our belief in Jesus Christ and accept Him as our Savior. He will bless us and guide us in all…

— L. Tom Perry

blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out…

— Lucille Clifton

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

— B. W. Powe

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

— Charles Spurgeon

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

— Ezra Pound

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

— Brother Lawrence

“Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“God Himself teaches us to go forward with our hand in His by means of the Church’s liturgy.”

— Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.

— Oswald Chambers

“One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.”

— Idries Shah

I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.

— Ingrid Bergman

...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...

— Rachel Vincent

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a King to his knees. Grace Willows To Kiss a king”

— Julie Brookshier

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

— Anonymous

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

— Ann Landers

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

— Evelyn Waugh

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

— Teresa of Avila