Quotes About Saint

You weren't picky about who got hurt. Still aren't. So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.

I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Lourdes in Nevers,

In museums I always enjoy stopping at the Saint Jeromes.

It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

In his book on the saint, Chesterton says that, for Francis, religion was not a theory but a love affair, and "there are those who do not believe that a heavenly love can be as real as an earthly love.

I played Big Brother in a Studio One presentation of '1984,' and that should have marked me as a villain to American producers. But I went straight from that to placing a saint - St, Peter in 'The Silver Chalice,' which may have been one of the worst movies ever made.

And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He's been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted him to live, but none had made him feel that his life was precious, was worth saving, was worth something.

Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr?

An Asshole Saint," said Stephen. "Not the first. I think most were, weren't they? In fact, she wouldn't even be the first around here.

He's a saint." Beauvoir laughed, but seeing Gamache's serious face he stopped. "What do you mean?" "There're some people who believe that." "Seemed like an asshole to me." "The hardest part of the process. Telling them apart.

Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint or a pile of rubble.

H]is skin was the color of age and his features the shape of a saint's.

When Christians unto carnal men give ear, Out of their way they go, and pay for 't dear; For Master Worldly Wiseman can but shew A saint the way to bondage and to woe.

If you correspond to the designs of God, He will make a saint of you.

A person's destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.

Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn't like things that were ineffable… …a lot of people don't like things that are unearthly, the things of this earth are good enough for them, and they don't mind telling you so. "If he'd just go out and get a job, like everybody else, then he could be saintly all day long…" —from "The Temptations of St. Anthony," by Donald Barthelme

How true it is that the holiest saint in his humanness is a miserable sinner and a debtor to mercy and grace to the last moment of his existence

Young men, God does not show favoritism or respects the honors bestowed by men. He rewards no man's heritage, or wealth, or rank, or position. He does not see with man's eyes. The poorest saint that ever died in a ghetto is nobler in His sight than the richest sinner that ever died in a palace.

She whispered a quiet prayer to the patron saint of paratroopers: "Saint Michael the Archangel, defend them in battle, be their protection against the enemy…

God is no saint, strange to say. There is much to object to in him, and many attempts have been made to improve him.

Mercedes cierra los ojos con solemnidad y dice: - Sarita Colonia, santita justiciera, limpia mi comida y mátame los microbios, también cuídame la vida y espántame los novios.

I said that she had acted like a saint, but that since I was living in this real world I had really wanted just a mother.