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Saints Quotes by Thomas Merton
- As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this…
- Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take…
- Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get…
- 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
- Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
- 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…
- I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a…
- The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in…
- Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them…
More Saints Quotes
- If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and… — Margaret Atwood
- May God protect me from gloomy saints. — Teresa of Avila
- We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett
- For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are… — Annie Besant
- My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant
- Great writers are the saints for the godless. — Anita Brookner
- There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have… — Watchman Nee
- In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what our attitude… — Watchman Nee
- Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but… — Spencer W. Kimball