Saint Quotes - Page 21

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the patience of the Saint Job is needed. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the tenacity of the well tempered steel is needed.

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

The dear Lord has favored us with a share of His cross. The greatest and undoubtedly the hardest to bear is the lack of success in our work here. If a saint had been in charge, all would have gone well.

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

If you find a saint who has no sense of humour, then he is not a saint at all. Impossible. His very seriousness says that he has not achieved. Once you have some inner experiences of your own you become very playful, you become very innocent, childlike.

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth.

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?