Saint Quotes

1317 Saint quotes by 721 unique authors

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In… — Al-Ghazali
If somebody murders somewhere, I have a part in it. Even if I am a sleeper - I was sleeping, I don´t know about the… — Rajneesh
The Saint Bernards work best in teams of at least three dogs. They are sent out on patrols following storms, and they wander the paths… — Stanley Coren
My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian. — Mark Twain
The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms… — Carl De Keyzer
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time immemorial- the woman.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of the human race.… — Arthur Helps
The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee, as well as… — Heber J. Grant
Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where… — Heber J. Grant
The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of the right of… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria — Philo
Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these qualities in themselves… — Joanna Macy
Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis. — Maria Monk
That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at a flower, its… — Stephen Levine
No true Latter-Day Saint, while physically or emotionally able will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family's well-being to someone else. So… — Spencer W. Kimball
Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those… — Ezra Taft Benson
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience. — Anne Hutchinson
We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in… — China Mieville

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