Saints Quotes

578 Saints quotes by 366 unique authors

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows… — John Jay Chapman
If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built. — Van Jones
When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience. — Paul McCartney
We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Indians,… — Mark E. Petersen
As Latter-day Saints, we need not look like the world. We need not entertain like the world. Our personal habits should be different. Our recreation… — Robert D. Hales
What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people… — Peter Rollins
The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy,… — Andre Comte-Sponville
No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not… — Diana Peterfreund
What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar. — Jane Rogers
The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do… — Dalton Trumbo
Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. — Evelyn Waugh
Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners,… — Stanley Baldwin
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. — Isaac Watts
The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that… — Abraham Maslow
Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,”… — Swami Vivekananda
Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns,… — Phyllis McGinley
The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes… — Oswald Chambers
You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ. — Frank E. Gaebelein
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints. — J I Packer
God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work… — Edward McKendree Bounds
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead… — George Bernard Shaw
Most saints live to regret their career choice. — Bob Stokes
Behold, for years and generations, the way of God has been leveled by the cross and by death. How is this with thee, that thou… — Isaac of Nineveh

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