For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their… — Thomas Case Copy Share Image
Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair:… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary. — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
My trainer, Marty Jones, was trained by Billy Robinson, so was Johnny Saint and a lot of great British wrestlers. — William Regal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
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