Saint Quotes - Page 16

We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Indians, some as Negroes, some as Americans, some as Latter-day Saints. These are rewards and punishments, fully in harmony with His established policy in dealing with sinners and saints, rewarding all according to their deeds

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

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.

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.

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

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

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.

The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone.

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

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

You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.

For me to be a saint means to be myself.

Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.

A true Latter–day Saint family is a haven against the storms and struggles of life.

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

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