Quotes about Saints

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. Votes: 5

None of us are saints. Votes: 4

Suffering saints are living seed. Votes: 4

May God protect me from gloomy saints. Votes: 4

Great writers are the saints for the godless. Votes: 4

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints. Votes: 4

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell. Votes: 4

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace. Votes: 4

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. Votes: 4

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another. Votes: 4

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. Votes: 4

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has. Votes: 4

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.- Votes: 4

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals. Votes: 4

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. Votes: 4

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. Votes: 4

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun. Votes: 4

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Votes: 4

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. Votes: 4

We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly. Votes: 4

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. Votes: 4

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light. Votes: 4

Great saints are never wimps. Votes: 3

God, deliver me from sullen saints. Votes: 3

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. Votes: 3

May God protect me from gloomy saints. Votes: 3

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. Votes: 3

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity. Votes: 3

Most saints live to regret their career choice. Votes: 3

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir. Votes: 3

To saints their very slumber is a prayer. Votes: 3

Love makes saints or sinners out of men. Votes: 3

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. Votes: 3

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints. Votes: 3

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. Votes: 3

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils. Votes: 3

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known. Votes: 3

From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord. Votes: 3

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints. Votes: 3

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience. Votes: 3

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Votes: 3

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars. Votes: 3

There are no super saints, only those that don't quit. Votes: 3

I have played a few lay saints in my time. Votes: 3

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. Votes: 3

God made saints out of far worse people than you. Votes: 3

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil. Votes: 3

All saints have past and all sinners have a future. Votes: 3

To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints. Votes: 3

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. Votes: 3

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace. Votes: 3

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us. Votes: 3

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners. Votes: 3

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important. Votes: 3

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists. Votes: 3

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself. Votes: 3

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints. Votes: 3

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints. Votes: 3

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914. Votes: 3

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice. Votes: 3

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice. Votes: 3

You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ. Votes: 3

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints. Votes: 3

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture. Votes: 3

Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith. Votes: 3

Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars. Votes: 3

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Votes: 3

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting. Votes: 3

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints. Votes: 3

Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum! Votes: 3

Jealousy, turning saints into the seaSwimming through sick lullabiesChoking on your alibis Votes: 3

Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal. Votes: 3

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. Votes: 3

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge. Votes: 3

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints. Votes: 3

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. Votes: 3

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. Votes: 3

We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity. Votes: 3

That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you. Votes: 3

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. Votes: 3

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend. Votes: 3

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience. Votes: 3

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good. Votes: 3

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery. Votes: 3

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education. Votes: 3

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel. Votes: 3

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else. Votes: 3

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence. Votes: 3

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. Votes: 3

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal. Votes: 3

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors. Votes: 3

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf. Votes: 3

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself? Votes: 3

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. Votes: 3

...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors... Votes: 3

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers. Votes: 3

The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners. Votes: 3

It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead. Votes: 3

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone. Votes: 3

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes. Votes: 3

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all! Votes: 3

The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world. Votes: 3

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. Votes: 3

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time. Votes: 3

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these. Votes: 3

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him. Votes: 3

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. Votes: 3

Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not. Votes: 3

Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. Votes: 3

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Votes: 3

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't. Votes: 3

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. Votes: 3

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners. Votes: 3

What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death. Votes: 3

The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you. Votes: 3

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. Votes: 3

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man Votes: 3

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints. Votes: 3

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can't all be saints and martyrs. Votes: 3

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. Votes: 3

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil. Votes: 3

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints. Votes: 3

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. Votes: 3

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own. Votes: 3

All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. Votes: 3

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints. Votes: 3

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men. Votes: 3

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? Votes: 3

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough. Votes: 3

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints. Votes: 3

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints. Votes: 3

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints. Votes: 3

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. Votes: 3

Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane? Votes: 3

All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer. Votes: 3

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. Votes: 3

The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles. Votes: 3

It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison. Votes: 3

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints Votes: 3

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians." Votes: 3

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do. Votes: 3

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause. Votes: 3

There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world. Votes: 3

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies. Votes: 3

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians. Votes: 3

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt. Votes: 3

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints. Votes: 3

There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Votes: 3

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth! Votes: 3

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity. Votes: 3

We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace. Votes: 3

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history. Votes: 3

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. Votes: 3

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God. Votes: 3

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp. Votes: 3

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public. Votes: 3

Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there. Votes: 3

Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. Votes: 3

The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God. Votes: 3

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines Votes: 3

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity. Votes: 3

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror. Votes: 3

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints. Votes: 3

I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints. Votes: 3

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. Votes: 3

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. Votes: 3

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it. Votes: 3

When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy Votes: 3

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln. Votes: 3

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity. Votes: 3

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. Votes: 3

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven. Votes: 3

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets. Votes: 3

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable. Votes: 3

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me. Votes: 3

Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn't"Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn) Votes: 3

What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar. Votes: 3

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built. Votes: 3

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery. Votes: 3

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. Votes: 3

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints... Votes: 3

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do. Votes: 3

There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort! Votes: 3

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him. Votes: 3

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles. Votes: 3

I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints. Votes: 3

Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always live Votes: 3

The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of Christ. Votes: 3

When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism. Votes: 3

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. Votes: 3

Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness. Votes: 3

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves. Votes: 3

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong. Votes: 3

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day. Votes: 3

Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. Votes: 3

It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them. Votes: 3

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. Votes: 3

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed"”and never will Votes: 3

Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head Votes: 3

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. Votes: 3

As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise...a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't. Votes: 3

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery? Votes: 3

The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity captive! Votes: 3

My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people. Votes: 3

God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be. Votes: 3

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it. Votes: 3

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people. Votes: 3

For all the saints who from their labors rest, Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed, your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed Alleluia! Votes: 3

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment. Votes: 3

Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls. Votes: 3

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. Votes: 3

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright. Votes: 3

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men. Votes: 3

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility. Votes: 3

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents. Votes: 3

Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians. Votes: 3

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black. Votes: 3

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else. Votes: 3

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. Votes: 3

The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death. Votes: 3

Christianity is the supernatural operation of the Holy Spirit.The faith once delivered to the saints is a miracle gospel, a miracle salvation with physical evidences. Votes: 3

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship. Votes: 3

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious. Votes: 3

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners. Votes: 3

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. Votes: 3

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly. Votes: 3

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived. Votes: 3

It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness. Votes: 3

Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. Votes: 3

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue. Votes: 3

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress. Votes: 3

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes. Votes: 3

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. Votes: 3

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands. Votes: 3

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints. Votes: 3

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine. Votes: 3

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father. Votes: 3

The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful. Votes: 3

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty. Votes: 3

Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods. Votes: 3

Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven. Votes: 3

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust. Votes: 3

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly. Votes: 3

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us. Votes: 3

God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth. Votes: 3

There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation. Votes: 3

Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone. Votes: 3

Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False. Votes: 3

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry Votes: 3

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined. Votes: 3

But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth. Votes: 3

Christ is the Morning Star, who, when the night of this world is past, gives to his saints the promise of the light of life, and opens everlasting day. Votes: 3

The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. Votes: 3

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long. Votes: 3

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man. Votes: 3

St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish. Votes: 3

From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners, corrupt CEOs and disinterested temp workers. Votes: 3

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy. Votes: 3

The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there. Votes: 3

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. Votes: 3

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God. Votes: 3

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn. Votes: 3

There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love. Votes: 3

When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom? Votes: 3

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs. Votes: 3

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song. Votes: 3

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men. Votes: 3

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. Votes: 3

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. Votes: 3

Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways. Votes: 3

We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing. Votes: 3

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer. Votes: 3

The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order. Votes: 3

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example. Votes: 3

America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for. Votes: 3

Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!' Votes: 3

Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries. Votes: 3

Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors. Votes: 3

Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus. Votes: 3

The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or ravishing-then the menagerie of saints and dragons must be faithfully recalled. Votes: 3

It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints. Votes: 3

It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives. Votes: 3

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

Will not the Lord hear my prayers and listen to my cries as soon as he ever did to theirs [the ancient saints'] if I come to him in the manner they did? Votes: 3

It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest. Votes: 3

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity. Votes: 3

Jesus is giving you such an opportunity to be holy, holier than all the saints that have ever been, because the world is in such need of shining lives, beacons to see by. Votes: 3

Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled. Votes: 3

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him. Votes: 3

The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face. Votes: 3

My mother and father used to take me to church in Mexico and Texas, wer I used to live. The huge figures of saints and crucifixions. Religion played a big role in my life. Votes: 3

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith. Votes: 3

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do. Votes: 3

We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him. Votes: 3

When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to convey is the psychic light, which is around everyone. Votes: 3

We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints. Votes: 3

Over the last 2,000 years, 10,000 saints have been named, among them, 78 popes. At the time of his death, Pope John Paul II had the distinction of naming 482 saints, more than all of his predecessors combined. Votes: 3

In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God. Votes: 3

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not. Votes: 3

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores! Votes: 3

While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee. Votes: 3

Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope, And God Save--as you prefer--the King or Ireland. The land of scholars and saints: Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush, Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints Votes: 3

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Votes: 3

The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the path of Yoga, mantra and tantra this is what the various saints advocated. Votes: 3

Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these qualities in themselves by doing spiritual practices. As the Buddha said, Come and see. Votes: 3

Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. Votes: 3

In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way. Votes: 3

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties. Votes: 3

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall. Votes: 3

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction. Votes: 3

The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes. Votes: 3

Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures. Votes: 3

This is really an opportunity to mobilize a new generation of scholars and pastors not just to equip the saints but also to engage the culture and reclaim it for Christ. That's really what is driving me. Votes: 3

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society. Votes: 3

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things. Votes: 3

But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. Votes: 3

United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ. Votes: 3

He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State. Votes: 3

There were thieves and hypocrites among us, to be sure, and true saints sprinkled here and there, but most were simply good, honest people who worshiped their Creator the best they knew how. We were a family. Votes: 3

Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity. Votes: 3

The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the truth that there has not yet been in our world a religious epoch of creativity. Votes: 3

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that. Votes: 3

Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation. Votes: 3

There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss. Votes: 3

Up from the grave He arose, with a mighty triumph o'er his foes. He arose the victor from the dark domain and He lives forever with his saints to reign. He arose! He arose! Hallelujah..,Ch rist arose! Votes: 3

There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect. Votes: 3

There is a beauty bestowed in some degree on all God's saints who pray much which is of the same nature and is the most precious of all answers to prayer. Character flows from the well-spring of prayer. Votes: 3

Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints. Votes: 3

The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success. Votes: 3

The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll. Votes: 3

One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys. Votes: 3

Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world. Votes: 3

They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost. Votes: 3

The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them. Votes: 3

How many, alas, of the precious saints of God must we shut out from being believers, if there is no faith but what amounts to assurance.... shall we say their faith went away in the departure of their assurance? Votes: 3

It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives. Votes: 3

The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world! Votes: 3

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them? Votes: 3

I didn't believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn't have those awful saints chivvying you around. Votes: 3

Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take the form of religion, but the politics is there. Then you are competing with other saints. Votes: 3

It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person. Votes: 3

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken. Votes: 3

He who thinks that he is finished is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons. Votes: 3

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 an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it. Votes: 3

The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven. Votes: 3

Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints? Votes: 3

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants. Votes: 3

[I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking of advice, we must reject and consider as a temptation whatever is suggested to the contrary. Votes: 3

The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. Votes: 3

I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God's word, or God's world. Votes: 3

I can't tell you how Aquinas has enriched and changed my life, my thought. He has helped me to be a better evangelical, a better servant of Christ, and to better defend the faith that was delivered, once for all, to the saints. Votes: 3

Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives -- but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it. Votes: 3

We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us. Votes: 3

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. Votes: 3

People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear. Votes: 3

'My sheep hear My voice' (Jn. 10:14). This is just another way of saying, 'They obey my words and keep My commandments.' Obeying the commandments the saints draw near to God; the more they draw near to God, the better they know Him. Votes: 3

The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action. Votes: 3

The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God. Votes: 3

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty. Votes: 3

I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides! Votes: 3

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints. Votes: 3

God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them. Votes: 3

Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness. Votes: 3

I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people in the world who have such a right to be happy, nor have such cause to be joyful as the saints of the living God. Votes: 3

Saints need sinners. Votes: 2

She was a patron saint of the peripheral. Votes: 2

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do. Votes: 2

I'm regarded as the patron saint of manicurists. Votes: 2

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Votes: 2

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. Votes: 2

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Votes: 2

I want to be like the patron saint of reality. Votes: 2

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. Votes: 2

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees. Votes: 2

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. Votes: 2

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly. Votes: 2

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint. Votes: 2

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. Votes: 2

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Votes: 2

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints. Votes: 2

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying. Votes: 2

Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart. Votes: 2

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. Votes: 2

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. Votes: 2

Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Votes: 2

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders. Votes: 2

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. Votes: 2

One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways. Votes: 2

The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them. Votes: 2

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it. Votes: 2

Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I'm not the 'Jesus-only or you're going to Hell' kind of guy. Votes: 2

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue. Votes: 2

In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am neither a Mahatma nor a Mahapurush, neither a Sadhu nor a Saint, neither a Yogi nor a Wali. I am the ancient One. The Highest of the High! Votes: 2

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. Votes: 2

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by. Votes: 2

Saints can spring from any soil. Votes: 0

Saints cannot exist without a community Votes: 0

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands. Votes: 0

The great thing is to become Saints. Votes: 0

Saints are sinners who kept on going. Votes: 0

Saints are only sinners who keep trying. Votes: 0

Saints are usually killed by their own people. Votes: 0

Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least. Votes: 0

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome. Votes: 0

Every Saint belongs to the court of the Queen of All Saints. Votes: 0

The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there! Votes: 0

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God. Votes: 0

You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather! Votes: 0

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners. Votes: 0

Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them. Votes: 0

We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team. Votes: 0

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. Votes: 0

A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident. Votes: 0

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it. Votes: 0

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day. Votes: 0

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. Votes: 0

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality. Votes: 0

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. Votes: 0

Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized. Votes: 0

Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth? Votes: 0

My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn. Votes: 0

I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places. Votes: 0

I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings. Votes: 0

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are. Votes: 0

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test Votes: 0

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. Votes: 0

The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others. Votes: 0

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train. Votes: 0

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. Votes: 0

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some. Votes: 0

Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be. Votes: 0

I think "The Boondock Saints", because the Irish guys win. Plus the cat ends badly. It affirms my worldview and I feel validated." Votes: 0

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears His name. He stands at its head and directs it through His chosen prophets. Votes: 0

Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit of Him. Votes: 0

The ability to share the Gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest. Votes: 0

The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest. Votes: 0

If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science! Votes: 0

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints. Votes: 0

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures. Votes: 0

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end. Votes: 0

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints. Votes: 0

The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in. Votes: 0

The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore. Votes: 0

For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect. Votes: 0

Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was definitely harder. I think it's just hard to talk about faith in general. Votes: 0

If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people. Votes: 0

The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing is absolute, not even death Votes: 0

For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad. Votes: 0

We are the nation's watchmen, no other people collectively love the Constitution and honor it and hold it as a divinely inspired document as do the Latter-day Saints. Votes: 0

How grateful I am That the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints has from its beginnings stood strongly against racism in any of its malignant manifestations Votes: 0

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things. Votes: 0

I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited. Votes: 0

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 to admire everyone else. Votes: 0

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly. Votes: 0

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. Votes: 0

The law of tithing is one of the most important ever revealed to man. . . . Through obeying this law the blessings of prosperity and success will be given to the Saints. Votes: 0

Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day. Votes: 0

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God. Votes: 0

Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity. Votes: 0

My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out, "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back. Votes: 0

I appeal to the Latter-day Saints to be honest with the Lord, and I promise them that peace, prosperity and financial success will attend those who are honest with our Heavenly Father. Votes: 0

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana. Votes: 0

To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth. Votes: 0

I like All Saints. They make great leathers. I love Hugo Boss, especially the suits. I like James Perse for T-shirts, and Supra and Radii for sneakers. And God Is in the Details. Votes: 0

Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind. Votes: 0

All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me. Votes: 0

I love guys who know how to dress. I love the motorcycle boots, and I love the skinnier jeans with jackets and scarves. Anybody who gets his clothes at All Saints, that's my guy. Votes: 0

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart. Votes: 0

The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the laying on of hands by those having priesthood authority. Votes: 0

Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust. Votes: 0

Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days Votes: 0

The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints. Votes: 0