Quotes About Saint

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You know that thing Julian used to say,' said Francis. 'Which thing?' 'About a Hindu saint being able to slay a thousand on the battlefield and it not being a sin unless he felt remorse.

We glory in our wonderful gospel of love and mercy for the unsaved, but we usually act as if we have no gospel for the saint who has been tripped up by the devil!

It takes but a moment to make a convert; it takes a lifetime to manufacture a saint.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

You're either a saint or a liar," he said as he sauntered over. "I'm not a liar." "Too bad. Liars are way more interesting than saints." "How would you know?" I asked with what I hoped was a seductive smile. "I doubt you've known a saint.

The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.

The saint maintains his piety through the graphic imagination of other people's vices. We thank him for it. The saint's impossible perfection allows us to go on being gargoyles while keeping our faith alive. We admire him for it. The saint's silence covers far more than our interpretations of it.

The final mark of a saint is not perfection, but lived virtue. It is the striving for holiness throughout the arc of a life that makes a saint.

The issue is not possession of riches, according to Saint Augustine, but the desire for them.

19TH DAY OF OCTOBER, Feast of Saint Frideswide, virgin, though why that should make someone a saint I do not know

You'd think he was a saint," Miss Dixon said. "The way people talk about him. We love dead people. As soon as they die, we start loving them." "Not all of them," said B.J. Miss Dixon looked at him. "Oh, well," she agreed. "Some people are never dead enough.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.