Saint Quotes · Page 16

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

— Dan Millman

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

— Malachy McCourt

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

— Victor Hugo

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

— Alexander Hamilton

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Saint Francis de Sales

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

— Mother Teresa

Katrina was one of those things that rips the clothes off of the guy who keeps saying he's a saint, and underneath…

— Junot Diaz

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed…

— Lorenzo Snow

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most…

— William Shakespeare

O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint…

— Peter Julian Eymard

A saint is a sinner, a sinner is a saint. It's all just the cloaks we hide behind, a cartoon in the…

— Live (Band

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their…

— Francis of Assisi

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might…

— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I…

— Albert Camus

The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the…

— Teresa of Avila

but do i need to say anything?" sophie asked. "do i need to learn any words?" "like what?" saint-germain said. "well, when…

— Michael Scott

God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a…

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Phyllis McGinley

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

— Rajneesh

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

— R. L. Stine

It seems to me that I had one clear ambition: to become a Saint.

— Cherry Diaz

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recite your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with perseverance.

— Louis de Montfort

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

— Teresa of Avila

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Counting other people's sins, does not make you saint.

— Anonymous

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

— John of the Cross

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

— William Cowper

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

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

— Jean Genet

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

— Teresa of Avila