Admirable Quote by Thomas Merton

Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

— Dan Millman

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

— Brennan Manning

Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints…

— Henri Nouwen

The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before others when…

— Anthony of Padua

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out…

— Frederick Buechner

A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has…

— Frederick Lenz

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

— Coventry Patmore

The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of…

— John of Damascus

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding…

— Thomas Merton

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

— Laurence Housman

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has…

— Leonard Cohen