Saint Quotes - Page 12

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

..nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.

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.

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

What do you possess if you possess not God?

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.

When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.

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.

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

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

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

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

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

The Rosary is THE weapon.

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit of God, which is the spirit of revelation to every man and woman. It will reveal to them, even in the simplest of matters, what they shall do, by making suggestions to them. We should try to learn the nature of this spirit, that we may understand its suggestions, and then we will always be able to do right. This is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint.

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

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

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.