Quotes About Saint

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.

One can take pride in going as far in crime as a saint in virtue.

Thomas Aquinas is but Aristotle sainted.

Espèce de saint d'Afrique, pensé-je, tu viens donner ta sagesse à un sauvage d'Europe qui suit la lune sur le calendrier et les nuages d'après le bulletin de la radio, et qui ne sait lire aucun mot sans un alphabet. (p. 93)

The writer is neither saint nor tzaddik nor prophet standing at the gate; he's just another sinner who has a somewhat sharper awareness and uses slightly more precise language to describe the inconceivable reality of our world.

Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Honour the worthy, love thy foes, Hide thy own virtues, cheer the faint, Pursue renown till life doth close, Such conduct marks the perfect saint.

I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.

belongs. I can't afford so much as a footman to scour Saint Petersburg." "You must afford it. It is said, 'One

Ce que Flaubert avait fait pour les religions et les philosophies antiques dans la Tentation de Saint Antoine, il l'a de nouveau accompli pour tous les savoirs modernes.

So for generations did the sainted skull of Caius Anicius Magnus Furius Camillus Æmilianus Cornelius Valerius Pompeius Julius Ibidus, consul of Rome, favourite of emperors, and saint of the Romish church, lie hidden beneath the soil of a growing town.

He thought of the statue of Saint Anthony, and all the empty prayers he had said before it, wishing for things that had never been lost.

Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."

There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.

He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.

A happy saint is one who is at the same time aware of the severity of sin and the immensity of grace.