Saints Quotes

Great saints are never wimps.

— Peter Kreeft

Suffering saints are living seed.

— Charles Spurgeon

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“May the saints preserve me.”

— Deidre Dalton

“She's no angel. He's no saint.”

— Elvis Costello

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

— Thomas Merton

God, deliver me from sullen saints.

— Teresa of Avila

“Saints Only Live in Heaven”

— Richard Stanley Cagan

...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...

— Rachel Vincent

I'd rather rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints

— Anonymous

Every night I'm more alone as the saints turn into sinners.

— Styx

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

— Anonymous

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

— Evelyn Underhill

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

— Pauline Collins

“We're not saints, and we're not screwups. We're just...people.”

— Anonymous

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

— Peter Kreeft

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

— Evelyn Waugh

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to…

— Bruno Dumont

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

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison,…

— William Gurnall

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

— Gertrude Stein

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Which would be at about shoulder height. Apparently, in Pada’s search for her path, the Saints needed to be sure that they…

— Holly Lisle

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints…

— Blaise Pascal

There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives…

— Walter J Chantry

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

— Phyllis McGinley

We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the…

— Dorothy Day

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it…

— Thomas Merton

“It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it…

— Thomas Merton

If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological…

— Catharine Arnold

“We know of course that the whole point is, the saints are not gods and never have been gods; even if they…

— Sigrid Undset

“There is a bench in the back of my garden shaded by Virginia creeper, climbing roses, and a white pine where I…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“It never ends well for saints, no matter how good they are. Castration, defenestration, hot pincers, prison—the saint is a scapegoat, a…

— Charles Graeber

A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases…

— Jan Hus

“There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering…

— Saint John of the Cross

I'm a Saints guy, and I'm on the defensive side and I'm hearing the hell that the Saints fans are giving the…

— Jonathan Vilma

“If a well-known and trustworthy person were to go to a public square and tell all the idlers loitering there that on…

— St. John Bosco