Saints Quotes

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

If you retain the joyous aftereffects of meditation throughout the day, or part of the day, you will...

The pavement artist thought for a bit, then agreed. 'I can start tomorrow morning.''Good, good. But ...

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...

A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix y...

What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies w...

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and m...

There is no sinner like a young saint.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

But we have no [Marian] apparitions cautioning the Church against, say, accepting the delusion of an...

The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you're a big boy. The sea's full of saints ...

We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's atten...

With my lost saints - I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choos...

[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and o...

She's no angel.He's no saint.

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire t...

Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because “friends react on one another” and through lo...

For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the tim...

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certai...

the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on...

He thanked God that she had been born and sheltered to such innocence. But he knew life, its foulnes...

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which th...

One of my favorite movies is 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.'

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement o...