Saint Quotes - Page 4

This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.

The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.

I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another's defects.

You won't become a saint by studying your Bible; you'll become a saint by living it.

They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.

Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less.

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.

The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.

Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.

I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.

Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love.