Saint Quotes
1317 quotes by 721 authors
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There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.
— Leon Bloy
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If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the…
— Mother Teresa
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A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is…
— Peter Kreeft
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Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future.…
— Pope John Paul II
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.
— Pope John Paul II
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Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the…
— Philip Neri
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The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong…
— Robert Southwell
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I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
— Therese of Lisieux
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There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain…
— Lorenzo Snow
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The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
— Oswald Chambers
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But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
— Oscar Wilde
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows…
— John Jay Chapman
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I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about…
— Lauren F. Winner
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I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.
— Charles Barkley
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
— Lana Turner
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If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.
— Van Jones
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I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I’ll give you everything until I collapse. That’s not in any ’Look at me,…
— Ellen Page
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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
— Sarah Vowell
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