Quotes About Saint

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

There's nothing that really motivates me anymore and demands that I get up in the morning. In the past it was Yves Saint Laurent.

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the patience of the Saint Job is needed. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the tenacity of the well tempered steel is needed.

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

But what is Whiggery?A leveling, rancorous, rational sort of mindThat never looked out of the eye of a saintOr out of drunkard's eye.

Satan trembles, when he sees the weakest Saint upon his knees.

When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon his knees.

They say stars have greatest influences when they are in conjunction with the sun; then sure the graces of a saint should never work more powerfully than in prayer, for then he is in the nearest conjunction and communion with God. That

Thus, great gifts lift a saint up a little higher in the eyes of men, but it occasions many temptations which thou meetest not with that art kept low.

The first man that was slain in the world was a saint, and he for religion. And as Luther said, Cain will kill Abel unto the end of the world.

In every sinner, Gertie, is the possibility of a saint.

Carmichael seems not to have realized that his patron saint was simply not a black nationalist.

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

There will be no sickness for the saint of God. ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness.

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint.

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.