“A saint is long past any desire for distinction; he is the only sort of superior man who has never been a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary,… — Bridget of Sweden Copy Share Image
Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are. — Krishnananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things. — Nissim Ezekiel Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Sabbath day has become a day of pleasure, a day of boisterous conduct, a day in which the worship of God… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control… — Rumi Copy Share Image
One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to… — Aelred of Rievaulx Copy Share Image
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
This is the most powerful saint which you can achieve all your dreams in life,as long you have a strong faith with… — Sky Blue Copy Share Image
Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've… — Hsu Yun Copy Share Image
You should be dynamic, and still be soft in the heart. You should stand against injustice and simultaneously, be compassionate within you,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits. — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
“But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“I will willingly abandon this miserable body to hunger and suffering, provided that my soul may have its ordinary nourishment.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth;… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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