Saint famous quotes

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Men #Saint #Poet

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
-- Abraham Cowley

#Catholic #Religion #Saint

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 mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Wise #Hero #Saint

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
-- Adam Savage

#Saint #Knees #Praying

God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Eye #Profound #Saint

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
-- Alan Redpath

#Miracle #Soul #Saint

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
-- Alber Elbaz

#Son #Law #Saint

None of us are saints.
-- Albert Fish

#Serial Killer #Saint

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Learning #Saint #Sage

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Hate #Believe #Saint

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Clothes #Kitchen #Saint

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
-- Alexander Pope

#Dying #Saint #Silver

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
-- Alexander Pope

#Saint #Lawns

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
-- Alexander Pope

#Saint #Paint #Grows

Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.
-- Alice Cary

#Thinking #Gold #Saint

The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.
-- Alistair Cooke

#Golf #Games #Saint

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
-- Allen Ginsberg

#Writing #Voice #Saint

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Desire #Saint #Rich

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Saint #Trust In God #Lost

What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Doe #Saint #Cost

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Saint #Needs #Praying

Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Attachment #Saint #Flesh

"Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Jesus #Saint #How To Love

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Soul #Causes #Saint

Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Giving #Saint #Lost

Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Grace #Saint #Sin

You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.
-- Alphonsus Rodriguez

#Firsts #Saint #Care

What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.
-- Ambrose

#Saint #Impossible #Difficult

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.
-- Andrew Cuomo

#Office #Portraits #Saint

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.
-- Andrew Lincoln

#Saint

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
-- Andrew Young

#Land #Saint #Glory

Great writers are the saints for the godless.
-- Anita Brookner

#God #Writing #Saint

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
-- Anne Hutchinson

#Saint #Host #Conscience

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.
-- Anne Rice

#Angel #Saint #Literature

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
-- Anne Rice

#Saint #Christ #Enough

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.
-- Anne Rice

#Saint #Chapel

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
-- Anne Sexton

#Saint #Poet #Moderation

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
-- Annie Lennox

#Angel #Saint #Humans

Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well.
-- Anthony Mary Claret

#People #Saint #Lord

Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
-- Anthony of Padua

#Doe #Saint #Credit

The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.
-- Anthony of Padua

#Mother #Angel #Saint

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
-- Anthony of Padua

#Saint #Action #Speak

The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.
-- Anthony of Padua

#Soul #Saint #Body

There is no sinner like a young saint.
-- Aphra Behn

#Children #Saint #Young

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.
-- Arthur Machen

#Fall #Trying #Saint

...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously true. He manifested the glory of God to us, but he added nought to God... Christ's goodness and rightousness reached unto His saints in the earth but God was high above and beyond it all....
-- Arthur W. Pink

#Jesus #Essentials #Saint

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
-- B. W. Powe

#Saint #Calling #Charisma

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.
-- Bella Freud

#Saint #Influence

We offend God because we do not know His greatness.
-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Greatness #Saint

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.
-- Benedict Joseph Labre

#Jesus #Suffering #Saint

Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.
-- Benjamin Hoff

#Heaven #Faithful #Saint

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
-- Bernadette Devlin

#Interesting #Not Good Enough #Saint

My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength.... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.
-- Bernadette Soubirous

#Hands #Saint #Spirit

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Men #Saint #Three

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Regret #Past #Saint

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Men #Doe #Saint

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Saint #Sin #Confession

You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!
-- Bernardino of Siena

#Thinking #Rude #Saint

I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.
-- Bert Stern

#Beautiful #Saint #Lucky

I'm not easy to live with. My wife is a saint.
-- Bill Burr

#Wife #Saint #Easy

Le silence est la plus grande perse  cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Silence #Saint #Silent

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

#Saint #Goodness #Goodness Of God

Each lost day has its patron saint!
-- Bret Harte

#Saint #Lost #Patron

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.
-- Brett Favre

#Fans #Saint #Hours

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.
-- Bridget of Sweden

#Men #Saint #World

How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me — namely that Adam is our Father and God —...
-- Brigham Young

#Father #Mind #Saint

I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
-- Brigham Young

#Jesus #Saint #Doctrine

We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever.
-- Brigham Young

#Father #Saint #World

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.
-- Brigham Young

#Saint #Earth #Latter

Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.
-- Brigham Young

#Miracle #Saint #Fear Of Love

Lord of all  pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!
-- Brother Lawrence

#Meals #Saint #Lord

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.
-- Bruno Dumont

#Atheist #People #Saint

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Tyrants #Different #Saint

When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint." -Della
-- C.C. Hunter

#Saint #Quacks #Walks

God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice, and a third time, God still looks for him, "so that he may be converted and live."
-- Caesarius of Arles

#Men #Firsts #Saint

Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Saint #Shy #Looks

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.
-- Carl Bernstein

#Feminist #Perception #Saint

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Saint #Sinner

The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.
-- Catherine Booth

#Laughing #Saint #Hell

A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!
-- Catherine Doherty

#Simple #Saint #Sinner

I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones

#Saint #Fruit #Deny

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fun #Real #Saint

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.
-- Charles Barkley

#Thank God #Saint #Looks

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Men #Important #Saint

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
-- Charles Churchill

#Religion #Saint #Mercy

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.
-- Charles Fort

#Humility #Years #Saint

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.
-- Charles Peguy

#Tragedy #Saint

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.
-- Charles Peguy

#Heart #Saint #Matter

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
-- Charles Peguy

#Self Respect #Saint #Faults

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.
-- Charles Simeon

#Men #Saint #Scripture

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Giving #Grace #Saint

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Grace #Saint #Holiness

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Doe #Saint #Killing

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.
-- Charles Taze Russell

#Scary #Saint #Deliverance

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.
-- Charles Wesley

#Clouds #Triumph #Saint

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Inspirational #Saint #Christian Living

I'm far from a saint.
-- Clay Guida

#Saint

Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.
-- Clive Bell

#Art #Men #Saint

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.
-- Colin Meloy

#Saint #Nancy #Benediction

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped
-- Colin S. Smith

#Saint #Augustine #Used