Quotes About Saint

The two halves parted, with every sign of mutual respect. Neither chastised the other. There were no recriminations. In each of us there is a thief and a saint. The trouble of it is, we cannot part them.

As a practitioner, you can create holiness. Holiness cannot be bestowed on us by someone else. ... We are a saint when we can produce holiness.

It's easier to be a saint for fifteen minutes than an hour

Joan of Arc was their patron saint, and I heard that they died out in part because girls were required to join by the time they were fifteen.

Hasta donde se toca ambición se tiene tacto leal de hombre; cuando ya no se la toca, la criatura se vuelve nada menos que el santo y produce no sé que vértigo.

His insolent gaze traveled over her body. "I hear you're quite the little saint." "Compared to whom? Caro?" His cynical smirk widened to a genuine smile at her retort. "I daresay you're having a bit of an adventure, aren't you?" "An ordeal is more like it." "Well, you seem to have come through it all in fine spirit." He pressed away from the door and sauntered toward her.

The Savior asks us to repent not just to repay him for paying our debt to justice, but also to induce us to undergo the personal development that will purify our very nature. The 'natural man' will remain an enemy to God forever—even after paying for his own sins—unless he also 'becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord.' (Mosiah 3:19.)

Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.

He looked like a dead saint, lying there on the bed. Was it the Grigori beauty coming through in him now, this translucence, this sense of inner fire, which shone through his fine-boned face, or had Daniel coaxed this new beauty from him?

By his side, Owen was standing with his head thrown back, his eyes peacefully closed, lips parted. Othman realised the boy was really quite beautiful. He looked like a dying saint, or someone inviting a kiss.

It was the confession of a saint. -Martin Ladvenu

My heart is one part predatorAnd one part saint!Most of it is crazyAnd a little bit too saneIt falls for allBut beats for noneIt's one part brokenStill shoots like a machine gun!

Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns.

The word 'Prabhupada' is a term of the utmost reverence in Vedic religious circles, and it signifies a great saint even among saints. The word actually has two meanings: first, one at whose feet (pada) there are many prabhus (a term meaning 'master,' which the disciples of a guru use in addressing each other). The second meaning is one who is always found at the lotus feet of Krishna (the Supreme Master).

In his "Canticle of the Creatures," Saint Francis says, "Blessed are those whom death will find in your most holy will, for the second death shall do them no harm.

The final mountain is Subasio, the spiritual mountain I've been traveling toward since I was thirteen years old: Mount Subasio on whose spur lies Assisi where Saint Francis was born and where he is buried.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

The endemic condition of the Iberian saint is chronic constipation

One can covert only a sinner, never a saint.

These people who see sin everywhere are sick in their souls and, if you really press me, in their bowels. The endemic condition of the Iberian saint is chronic constipation.

There is nothing in the world that renders a man more unlike to a saint, and more like to Satan—than to argue from God's mercy to sinful liberty; from divine goodness to licentiousness. This is the devil's logic, and in whomever you find it, you may write, 'This soul is lost!' A man may as truly say, 'the sea burns', or 'the fire cools—as that God's free grace and mercy should make a truly gracious soul to live wickedly.

The greater the sinner the greater the saint; it was not necessary to dive far into Christian history to discover that

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.