Saint Quotes - Page 14

Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.

Yves Saint Laurent hated fashion. He loved style.

Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.

The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.

I'm no saint but I do believe in what is right.

Who teaches the soul if not God?

Every Saint belongs to the court of the Queen of All Saints.

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

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

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

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

Each lost day has its patron 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.

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.

It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.

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.

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

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.

Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.