Saint Quotes - Page 31

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.

Personally, I like to start my day off as a Saint and graduate to my Sinner self!

You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

Will not the Lord hear my prayers and listen to my cries as soon as he ever did to theirs [the ancient saints'] if I come to him in the manner they did?

Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days

Saints can spring from any soil.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he’d come a long way and still had a long way to go.

I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency?

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

I'm an angel not a frickin' saint.