Saint Quotes - Page 9

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

The Gucci woman - you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman - she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

God asks little, but He gives much.

Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly.

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

Preach always. Use words if necessary.

God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!