Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are:… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was… — John Piper Copy Share Image
When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them… — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
It should be recognized that this Church is not a social club. This is the kingdom of God on the earth. It… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The saints are like the Lord, but so are all people who keep the commandments of Christ; but those who live according… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set,… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
Behold, for years and generations, the way of God has been leveled by the cross and by death. How is this with… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
As Latter-day Saints, we need not look like the world. We need not entertain like the world. Our personal habits should be… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
When you are in the temple, remember that you are in the living presence of the Lord God, that you stand before… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made… — Clare of Assisi Copy Share Image
The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
![“When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who…” quote by Jeremiah Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1df/jeremiah-burroughs-16546_action_when-the-saints-perform-actions-to-god-t_813190.jpg)
