Saint Quotes · Page 21

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

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

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

— John of the Cross

God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform.

— John of the Cross

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint…

— Zachary Cole Smith

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these…

— Saint Francis de Sales

I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.

— Saint Francis de Sales

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

— Saint Francis de Sales

Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma,…

— Frederick Lenz

“You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon…

— Jessica Fortunato

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make.…

— Adriana Trigiani

“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that…

— Leonard Cohen

There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good…

— Swami Vivekananda

He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn’t like things that were ineffable… …a lot of…

— Donald Barthelme

They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their…

— Andrew Holleran

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in…

— Phyllis McGinley

Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?

— Gerard Majella

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

— Anonymous

Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.

— Anonymous

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

— Louisa May Alcott

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

— Anonymous

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

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Saint Christopher, who said, Where can I get a Frank Sinatra medal? Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

— Andrew Cuomo

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

— Flannery O'Connor