Saint Quotes - Page 20

Saintliness is also a temptation.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people in the world who have such a right to be happy, nor have such cause to be joyful as the saints of the living God.

The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.

I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.

Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent; got kiss myself I'm so pretty.

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.