Saint Quotes - Page 15

There's nothing that really motivates me anymore and demands that I get up in the morning. In the past it was Yves Saint Laurent.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

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.

Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.

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.

The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible.

I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.

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

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

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.

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.

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.

His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.

Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.

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

You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief

What do they not see, who see Him Who sees all things?

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

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!

No great saint lived without errors.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.