Saint Quotes · Page 19

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

— Saint Augustine

That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.

— Austin O'Malley

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

— Sarah Vowell

If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.

— Janadas Devan

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

— Henry David Thoreau

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

— Jane Frances de Chantal

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

— Ellis Peters

Jailbait," he declared, leaping up. "You're a saint. A goddess, even.

— Richelle Mead

Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the…

— Alice Cary

Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with…

— Ephrem the Syrian

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's…

— Helen Rowland

The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.

— Catherine Booth

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek…

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it…

— Thomas Merton

There's nothing that really motivates me anymore and demands that I get up in the morning. In the past it was Yves…

— Pierre Berge

The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of…

— Clive Barker

God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got…

— William Gurnall

Elizabeth Taylor had come to Washington with a few suitcases and found out that she was going to go to Iran and…

— Firooz Zahedi

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We…

— Anonymous

Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace,…

— Nicholas of Cusa

Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was…

— Darren Aronofsky

I always felt bad for Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa lived a whole life helping starving children and dying villages, but she could…

— Gilbert Gottfried

If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit…

— Ambrose

“Saintliness means turning pain to good account. It means forcing the devil to be God.”

— Jean Genet

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

— Madeleine Sophie Barat

If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

— Gemma Galgani

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

— Thomas Fuller

Pray to Saint Philomena, What ever you ask from her, She will obtain for you.

— Pope Gregory XVI

Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint.

— Kim Dickens

I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.

— Chad Johnson

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

— Stephenie Meyer

Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

— Patrick Roy

The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.

— Hugh Price Hughes

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

— Rudyard Kipling

It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.

— Thomas Dubay

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

— Peter Kreeft

As a student of Alice Waters, the patron saint of salad, I'm no stranger to the art of lettuce washing.

— Samin Nosrat

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

— Teresa of Avila