Saint Quotes - Page 8

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It speaks rather in his favor. This used to be much better understood.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

The great thing is to become Saints.

If you correspond to the designs of God, He will make a saint of you.

Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ.

The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.

"Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus."

God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.