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Saint Quotes by Thomas Merton
- As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this…
- People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
- For me to be a saint means to be myself.
- To be a saint is to be yourself.
- Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take…
- 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…
- 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
- Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
- They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of…
- I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a…
- The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in…
- What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you…
- For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out…
- Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them…
- As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the…
More Saint Quotes
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and… — Margaret Atwood
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. — Saint Augustine
- May God protect me from gloomy saints. — Teresa of Avila
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
- We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett
- There is no sinner like a young saint. — Aphra Behn
- Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic… — Ezra Taft Benson
- For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are… — Annie Besant
- My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant
- Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. — Ambrose Bierce