Saints Quotes
578 Saints quotes by 366 unique authors
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
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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
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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
— Anne Hutchinson
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And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by force, by violence.…
— Rajneesh
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The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar,…
— Philip Neri
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If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for,…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and…
— Alphonsus Rodriguez
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Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of…
— Dorothy Day
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Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
— Henri Nouwen
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Saints cannot exist without a community
— Stanley Hauerwas
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The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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Jesus is giving you such an opportunity to be holy, holier than all the saints that have ever been, because the world is in such…
— Mother Angelica
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We too can be saints in our family, in our neighborhood, wherever we live and work. Be a person who listens to what people need,…
— Pope Francis
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The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.
— Pope Francis
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