Doe Quote by Anthony de Mello

“Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

— Angelus Silesius

A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!

— Catherine Doherty

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

— Laurence Housman

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has…

— Leonard Cohen

Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she…

— Patience Strong

The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.

— Angelus Silesius

The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

— Angelus Silesius

Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

— Willa Cather

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.

— Angelus Silesius

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

— William Barclay