Saint Quotes - Page 13

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

We must never underestimate the power of the prayer that is lifted up by wonderful saints all around the world. Prayer is of paramount importance in developing our relationship with our Savior and in building up and supporting others through the work of the Holy Spirit.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.

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.

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

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!

My father was a saint. I'm not.

But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former.

Born a saint, die a sinner - born a sinner, die a saint.

A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

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

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

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

Mount Calvary is the academy of love.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.