Saintly Quotes
43 quotes by 37 authors
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true…
— Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr
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All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best,…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
— John Milton
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One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Worship of The Lotus Feet of The Spiritual Master: There is no work as auspicious as serving the spiritual master. Of all worship, the worship…
— Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
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You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization says so, but rather because you stay connected to the divinity of your origination. You…
— Wayne Dyer
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The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance…
— Bruce C. Hafen
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Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released,…
— Gautama Buddha
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For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy,…
— Donald J. Boudreaux
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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each…
— John Milton
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Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.
— Scott Jurek
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One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
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In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For,…
— John Cassian
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At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.
— Chanakya
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Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is…
— Chanakya
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
— St. Jerome
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Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.
— Mark Gevisser
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