Saint Quotes

1317 Saint quotes by 721 unique authors

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and… — Janet Fitch
Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul .… — Neal A. Maxwell
Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just… — Ted Dekker
I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward. — Margaret Atwood
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot
Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together… — Nikos Kazantzakis
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits… — Viktor E. Frankl
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a… — C.S. Lewis
Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular… — Gregory Maguire
I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even… — Isabel Allende
Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer.… — Oswald Chambers
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get… — Thomas Merton
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. — George Orwell
Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three… — Stephen King
Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and… — Brigham Young
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary… — Stanley Hauerwas
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they… — Shane Claiborne
For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness — Thomas Merton
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. — Brigham Young
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. — Thomas Merton
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious,… — H P Lovecraft
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. — Kurt Vonnegut
...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously… — Arthur W. Pink

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