Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes from within our power. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. — Rose of Lima Copy Share Image
It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger. — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The people will have no need to change their place of concourse; where of old they were wont to sacrifice cattle to… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
There's something about Saint Francis's approach to life, zero expectations but pleasant surprise. In a lot of ways he was a really… — Denison Witmer Copy Share Image
The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There is an enormous difference between growing old in the Lord and growing up in Him. One is automatic and requires no… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image