Saint Quotes
1317 quotes by 746 authors
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For it is in giving that we receive.
— Francis of Assisi
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
— Margaret Atwood
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
— Saint Augustine
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
— Teresa of Avila
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of…
— Teresa of Avila
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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
— Charles Baudelaire
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
— Samuel Beckett
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There is no sinner like a young saint.
— Aphra Behn
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Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise…
— Annie Besant
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories…
— Annie Besant
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
— Anita Brookner
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the…
— Naomi Campbell
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
— Oswald Chambers
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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
— Minna Antrim
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If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
— Thomas Aquinas
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