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Quotes About Saint

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
~ Tom Waits
An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.
~ Sivananda
Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.
~ St. Francis Of Assisi
If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.
~ St. Ignatius of Loyola
God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
~ St. Thérèse de Lisieux
What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?
~ Saint John Chrysostom
August 20, the feast day of Bernard of Clairvaux.
~ Michael Gruber
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
~ Oscar Wilde
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
~ Ambrose Bierce
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I've been a sinner and a saint. If you've been a saint all your life, it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If you've been a sinner, you're just as comfortable in it.
~ Killer Mike
The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
~ Max von Sydow
An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
~ Sophie Kerr
The patron saint of outlining - the bespectacled siren who sings to me from his spotless rock - is P. G. Wodehouse.
~ Ben Dolnick
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
~ Bram Stoker
nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I'm no saint.
~ Sylvia Day
This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness, The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant. There's no getting up it by the words you know. No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe. We have only come to look. You are too new To want the world in a glass hat.
~ Sylvia Plath
Un soare imperturbabil È™i alb str?lucea în vârful cerului. Îmi venea s? m? È™lefuiesc de la el pân? când deveneam sfînt? È™i esenÈ›ial? c? lama unui cuÈ›it.
~ Sylvia Plath
Come now, Susina, remember you were always a saint when it came to a handsome face." "Not when it comes to yours, you demi-demon." "Ah, Susina. And my charming friend dying at your door." "I am not the hospital. I do not take the wounded in." "This once." "I have patrons and guests. You be circumspect." "As a monk, dear lady of delights." "Pah.
~ Tanith Lee
Let go of me or slow down," she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him. He slowed down. "I swear to God, you try the patience of a saint." "You aren't a saint, Brodick, no matter what your mother might have told you.
~ Julie Garwood
There is nothing gayer than St Catherine's day. Each workroom has its own orchestra … there is one continuous ball.
~ Justine Picardie
But he thought of Einstein as a living patron saint of physics, not a working scientist.
~ Kai Bird
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
~ Oswald Chambers
I once stumped Jimmy Buffett by calling him a saint.
~ Jonathan Miles