Saints Quotes

578 Saints quotes by 366 unique authors

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
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into… — John Burroughs
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent… — Joseph Heller
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence. — Susan Beth Pfeffer
No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they… — Evelyn Waugh
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests… — Albert Camus
Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!" Even saints have to… — Diane Duane
Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives… — Robert A. Heinlein
A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a… — Hermann Hesse
Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many… — Anthony Horowitz
There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot… — M. Russell Ballard
Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you are united, your… — Gordon B. Hinckley
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy,… — Booth Tarkington
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can… — Dylan Thomas
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves. — Jean Vanier
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs. — Stephenie Meyer
Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn’t…Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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… — Thomas Merton

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