Saint Quotes

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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one… — Jean Cocteau
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty… — Rumi
The only team that believed in me was the Saints, and I feel like I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I want to… — Drew Brees
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. — Wallace Stevens
Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if… — Virginia C. Andrews
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a… — Howard Gardner
It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. — Mahatma Gandhi
The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a… — William Hazlitt
This earth is not our home. We are away at school, trying to master the lessons of "the great plan of happiness" so we can… — Bruce C. Hafen
There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit… — Lorenzo Snow
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop… — George Monbiot
All saints have past and all sinners have a future. — Anton Chekhov
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that… — Martin Luther
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all. — Therese of Lisieux
The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God. — John Vianney
And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque… — Fulton J. Sheen
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. — Oswald Chambers
We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of God. Significant is… — Pope John Paul II

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