Saint Quotes · Page 13

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

— Teresa of Avila

“He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts God can do all things.”

— Anonymous

The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

— Anthony de Mello

It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.

— Saint Francis de Sales

The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

— Dallas Willard

Sometimes I'm in the mood to wear crazy stuff, like a shirtless look with a Saint Laurent suit.

— Nick Young

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

— Andrew Lincoln

Saint Tropez and Ibiza were the true essences of early New Romantics.

— Martin Kemp

It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware…

— Anthony of Sourozh

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a King to his knees. From the Grace Willows novel To Kiss…

— Julie Brookshier Robin Woods Grace Willows

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

— Anonymous

Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how…

— Teresa of Avila

It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised…

— Pachomius the Great

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall…

— Marcus Eremita

Who hated sin more than the saints? But they did not hate the sinners at the same time, nor condemn them, nor…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a…

— John Ruskin

[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for…

— Phyllis McGinley

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt…

— George A. Sheehan

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque…

— Alexander McQueen

A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her…

— Neil T Anderson

Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to…

— Karen Armstrong

I am not ashamed to admit that I'm wearing Yves Saint Laurent from top to toe.

— Sophie Dahl

“Try your best to be a saint and see how far you'll fall.”

— Sai Marie Johnson

Helping people, Being a Saint, Nothing good comes out of it.

— Daniyal Butt

I will always be a part of New Orleans and I will always be a Saint.

— Morten Andersen

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

— Virginia Woolf

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

— Mark Twain

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

— Charles Baudelaire

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

— Pat Conroy

When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint." -Della

— C.C. Hunter

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

— Oswald Chambers

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

— Josemaria Escriva

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

— Sophie Swetchine

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

— Therese of Lisieux

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

— Brendan Behan

“If I was the pope, I'd've made Mrs. de Roo a saint. On the spot.”

— David Mitchell