Saints Quotes

Saints Quote of the day

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

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 like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.

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

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

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

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

...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

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

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!

But a tedious way to a grievous end(745)

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

The only difference between a saint and a pervert is Hypocrisy.

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.

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

If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.

With my lost saints - I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Who can we claim to know God, and deny him by our actions.

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

[T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning

And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.-Revelations 20:9

There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.

...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...

Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?''Oh yes, ' said Thomas. 'I don't believe it. By whom?''By Our Lord... on the altar.

Serve in the grace of strength within thy soul.

It is so easy to have problems with people when you are not God's will.

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing, ' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

To be a servant of the Saviour is the sacred service.

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

There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock.

All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.

[M]editation is the life of of most other duties

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

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

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

The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints.

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

Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.