Saint Quotes · Page 14

“Go towards God NOW. Remember – even a Saint cannot reclaim a wasted minute.”

— George King

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

— Brigham Young

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.

— Teresa of Avila

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.”

— Munia Khan

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

— Philip Neri

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

— Peter Kreeft

Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been…

— Arundhati Roy

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of…

— Rose Quiello

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

— David Denby

We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented…

— Brigham Young

I'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at…

— Tom Ford

Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for…

— Ephrem the Syrian

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

— Pope Pius XII

The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed…

— Anthony of Padua

There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm their biggest fan every Sunday they go out there and play. I'm pulling for them, for the people in New Orleans…

— Bill Cowher

It is God’s will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means…

— Jonathan Edwards

I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt…

— Bernhard Langer

“Who here can never say they have committed murder, whether in the name of the God or otherwise?” I meet the High…

— Sarah K.L. Wilson

What if thou be saint or sinner, Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,-- Empty paunch, or jolly dinner, When Death thee shall call. All…

— Richard Watson Gilder

Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight…

— Thomas Cartwright

“The woman was either a saint or a total masochist.”

— Jess Raven

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

— Coco Chanel

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

— Peter Kreeft

“A thief who promises you the world is no better than a saint who denies you the universe.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

— Dorothy Day

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

— Philip Neri

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

— Evelyn Underhill

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

— Pope Gregory I

I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.

— Teresa of Avila

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

— Pope Pius X

“My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.”

— Oscar Wilde

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

— Saint Francis de Sales

Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.

— George Herbert

“It could be a true future that Ilven saw—she’s a Saint after all. Was . Was a Saint.”

— Cat Hellisen

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

— Criss Jami

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

— Pope Gregory I