Saint Quotes - Page 17

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God’s gifts!

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.

God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice, and a third time, God still looks for him, "so that he may be converted and live."

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?

True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity.

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.

May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.

There are no super saints, only those that don't quit.