Saint Quotes - Page 33

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.

it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

Saints are usually killed by their own people.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

Latter-day Saints are not asked to blindly accept everything they hear. We are encouraged to think and discover truth for ourselves. We are expected to ponder, to search, to evaluate, and thereby to come to a personal knowledge of the truth.

"Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!" "Even saints have to start somewhere," Carl said softly. "And it's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image."

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.