Saint Quotes · Page 17

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

— Bridget of Sweden

Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.

— Paulinus of Nola

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

— Indira Gandhi

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.

— Dave Snowden

We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips.

— Peter Claver

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.”

— Eric Hoffer

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

— Teresa of Avila

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

— John Vianney

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

— Oscar Wilde

Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn’t…Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Thomas Aquinas was asked, “What must I do to be a saint?” and he said, “Will it.” Be a saint, and you’ll…

— Robert E. Barron

You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out…

— Maggie Stiefvater

My trainer, Marty Jones, was trained by Billy Robinson, so was Johnny Saint and a lot of great British wrestlers.

— William Regal

Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and…

— Arthur W. Pink

“To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the…

— Shūsaku Endō

We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.

— Saint Francis de Sales

Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them…

— Andrea Camilleri

... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special…

— Fawn M. Brodie

Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream…

— Pope John Paul II

The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this…

— Dalton Trumbo

While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution,…

— Wilford Woodruff

Very well, then: why are you attached to any one book, or to the words and ways of one saint when he…

— Thomas Merton

[I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers…

— Vincent de Paul

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “You are blessed doublee if…

— Albert Einstein

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

— Benedict Joseph Labre

You won't become a saint by studying your Bible; you'll become a saint by living it.

— Leonard Ravenhill

For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

— Teresa of Avila

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

— Ralph Abernathy

My wife is a saint. She's Gandhi. She walks around in diapers and won't eat.

— Bob Saget

“Why I love Jesus Christ; He saved me from my sins.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...”

— John Geddes

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

— William Shakespeare

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

— Anthony of Padua

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria

— Philo

Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?

— Edward Gibbon

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

— Ezra Taft Benson

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

— John the Baptist

“A saint is a human being who neither wants nor needs to hurt you.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

— John of the Cross