Saint Quotes

1317 Saint quotes by 721 unique authors

The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a… — Sam Manekshaw
Saints are sinners who kept on going. — Robert Louis Stevenson
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America. — Kenneth Rexroth
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf -… — Alistair Cooke
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in… — Thomas Aquinas
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have… — A. Whitney Brown
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. — Alexander Pope
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do. — Oscar Wilde
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana
Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum! — Pope John Paul II
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,… — Abraham Maslow
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is… — Andrew Carnegie
I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal, is the same… — Thomas S. Monson
Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one. — Unknown Author
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. — Samuel Rutherford
It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting… — John Flavel
Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls. — George Harrison
Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories put to it… — Richard Baxter
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a… — Charles Spurgeon
Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David,… — William Gurnall
All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel. — Mark Twain
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us. — Teresa of Avila

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