Saints Quotes

578 Saints quotes by 366 unique authors

Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there. — Frederick Lenz
Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are… — Henri Nouwen
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was… — Blaise Pascal
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints… — Henry Louis Gates
I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super… — Mike Ditka
The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things… — Robert Duvall
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice;… — Terry Eagleton
I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome. — Brett Favre
The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. — Matthew Henry
I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images… — Damien Hirst
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do. — Whitney Houston
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun. — Billy Joel
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of… — Soren Kierkegaard
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. — Benito Mussolini
You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints. — Edward James Olmos
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. — George Orwell
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much… — George Orwell
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. — Abigail Van Buren
I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always,… — Anne Rice
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. — Walter Scott
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. — Anne Sexton
I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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