Quotes about saint
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Why I love Jesus Christ He saved me from my sins.
Idries Shah - Seeker After Truth
Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.
John Geddes - A Familiar Rain
...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...
Jessica Fortunato - The Sin Collector: Thomas
You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?
W. Ian Thomas -
To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.
Sarah Dessen - Saint Anything
For as long as I could remember, other people had either overshadowed me or left me out in the open, alone. But Mac, as Layla had said all those weeks ago, was always somewhere nearby. He left me enough space to stand alone, but stood at the ready for the moment that I didn’t want to. It was the perfect medium, I was learning. Like he was my saint, the one I’d been waiting for.
Colin Bord -
We designate the spirit of the well as 'she' because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not invariably. She appears in many guises - ghost, witch, saint, mermaid, fairy, and sometimes in animal form, often as a sacred fish - and her presence permeates well lore, and indeed water lore generally.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
What matters is the sinner becomes a saint through the grace of salvation in Christ Jesus.
Rodney Jones - All the Butterflies in the World
No one showed any signs of recognizing me. I didn't know what I'd do if they did, other than lie like a devil and pray like a saint.
Haidji - SG - Suicide Game
He lived like a devil and died like a saint
McCall Hoyle - The Thing with Feathers
If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.
Jessica Fortunato - The Sin Collector: Thomas
There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love.
Manu Joseph - The Illicit Happiness of Other People
The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.
Elizabeth Goudge - The Rosemary Tree
Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so dull, and like the White Queen one had to run so fast to stay where one was, let alone progress; and there were few men who dared to say they had found God. It was easy to be a clever sinner, for the race to an earthly visible goal was short to run, so impossibly hard to be a wise saint, with the goal set at so vast a dis
Aphra Behn - The Rover
Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.
Thomas Aquinas - Disputed Questions Virtues
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
Joshua De Vera Bautista -
Even the kindest saint does have their own adversary
Léon Bloy -
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman.
Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir -
The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.
Donna Lynn Hope -
It's easy to be a saint when all you've known is the good.
Criss Jami -
Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment.
Assegid Habtewold - The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Character isn't all about becoming a saint or perfect. No one is perfect! There are areas we all are working on to improve and fine tune..
Quetzal -
I’m nothing but a thought in the mind of God,I’m Satan’s slave; I open my eyes and flee, I’m mankind, I worship, and I kill,All in the name of Love, hateI’m the slaughtered lamb, I’m luzbel I’m the one paying for your sins,I’m your son; I am your mom and dad,I’m the one, who worships God, I’m a killer and a saint,I’m just a thought in the mind of God.I laugh and I suffer, I get killed, and I kill others,I’m nothing but a thought in the mind of GodI’m compassion and rage, I love, I cheat, and I l
Philippe Claudel - Brodeck
Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence, perhaps even contempt. But they're mistaken, and that makes them furious. They commit an awful crime. This is doubtless the reason why most saints end up as martyrs.
Thomas Aquinas -
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.
Munia Khan -
It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.
Jibankrishna -
How do I recognize a real saint? Whom I shall see within me whether it is in dreams or trances or meditations, He will be the Saint to me. Because God is the only Saint in this world. He is within our bodies. When He will manifest within my body in the form of a person, he will be saint to me.
Habeeb Akande -
I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness
Pope Benedict XVI -
Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is conquered by the fire of His gaze, no sacrifice seems too great to follow Him and give Him the best of ourselves. This is what the saints have always done, spreading the light of the Lord ... and transforming the world into a welcoming home for everyone.
Idries Shah - Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.
Merrie Haskell - The Castle Behind Thorns
Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.”“Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the day?”“Everyone who didn’t murder anyone, maybe,” Perrotte said.
Ana Claudia Antunes - ACross Tic
Shamrocks And roses In an ever green flock Now Up to your noses Turning into a high stock! People nice and seen All around you green! These lucky streams Realizing major dreams. In strives, when in pain Call oh call up my name, Know it isn't in vain...
Lailah Gifty Akita -
There is salvation for every soul.
San Juan de la Cruz - Dark Night of the Soul
There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering is safer, and also more profitable, than that of rejoicing and of action. In suffering God gives strength, but in action and in joy the soul does but show its own weakness and imperfections. And in suffering, the soul practices and acquires virtue, and becomes pure, wiser, and more cautious.
Oswald Chambers -
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Is there any saint without a sin?
Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land
I'm not a saint! Thanks God!
Lailah Gifty Akita -
There is hope for the sinner to be made a saint.
Nandhiji - Mastery of Consciousness: Awaken the Inner Prophet: Liberate Yourself with Yogic Wisdom.
For a Siddhar yogi, time is precious. It is important to utilize every moment to evolve into ever higher states of consciousness. We understand stagnancy as decay and for growth, we constantly discard the old to welcome change as the new. We tap into the magical abilities to evolve. "Every saint was a sinner in the past" maxim holds true. In the intensity of our yogic pursuit we evolve quickly. By evolving, we know that is the greatest gift of a lifetime we could ever receive- to be angelic as a