Saint Quotes - Page 32

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

We're not saints, any of us. Maybe somebody is, but I don't know those people. But we all know people who behave very smugly and are very egotistical and put you down as a manner of improving their own place in the world or improving their own place in the world.

I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.

Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where we are not surrendering the right. We must stay with the right and if we do so God will bless us.

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.

Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

Such a Saint, such an offering.

Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]

Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.