Quotes About Saint

Válmíki,(2)bird of charming song,(3)   Who mounts on Poesy's sublimest spray, And sweetly sings with accent clear and strong   Ráma, aye Ráma, in his deathless lay. Where breathes the man can listen to the strain   That flows in music from Válmíki's tongue, Nor feel his feet the path of bliss attain   When Ráma's glory by the saint is sung!

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity.

To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.

One does not cross-examine a saint.

To cling to his paradise and become a devil or become a saint by going back to hell?

Ser un santo es la excepción; ser un justo es la regla. Equivocaos, desfalleced, pecad, pero sed justos.

The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science.

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

Quien no ha deseado por lo menos una vez en su vida ser un santo, es, todo lo más, una bestia

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

To have nothing the matter with you and no habits is pretty tame, pretty colorless. It is just the way a saint feels, I reckon; it is at least the way he looks. I never could stand a saint.

Friar Giovanni of Plano Carpini, a sixty-five-year-old cleric, who had been one of the disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi, arrived as the agent and spy for Pope Innocent IV, commissioned to find out as much as possible about these strange people who had threatened Europe.

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The saint was once a sinner; the sinner will one day be a saint. The sinner is the child; the saint is the grown man. He who separates himself from sinners, regarding them as wicked men to be avoided, is like a man avoiding contact with little children because they are unwise, disobedient, and play with toys.

Remember that fortune and misfortune should be left to heaven and natural law. They are not to be bough by prayer or any cunning device to be thought of by any man or self-styled saint. p848

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

If you wish to be a saint, it is not hard. Have one aim--to please Jesus and to unite yourself more intimately to Him.