Quotes About Saint

L'equilibrio, insieme al miracolo e all'intensità del vivere, è una delle tre caratteristiche del santo.

Brigid is the guardian of the home, and the threshold is one of her power places. Saint

Cleanliness is itself a virtue. Next to godliness? If she were quite frank with herself, she would probably change the order and say godliness is next to cleanliness. Certainly she would prefer as a visitor a clean sinner to a dirty saint.

The moonlight shone with exceeding lustre through the tall casements and lit into a ghastly semblance of life the marble images of saint and martyr, that threw their long shadows over the consecrated floor.

We need a conversion of morals, the elderly man said. Not just superficially, but profoundly. And in both races. We need a great saint-some enlightened common sense. Otherwise, we'll never have the right answers...

Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest," Mrs. Grogan was saying, "and peace at last." Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud's, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he'd come a long way and still had a long way to go.

So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone's older brother and someone's older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.

A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.

to become a saint one had to suffer much, seek out always the most perfect thing to do, and forget self.

My God 'I choose all!' I don't want to be a saint by halves, I'm not [5]afraid to suffer for You, I fear only one thing: to keep my own will; so take it, for 'I choose all that You will!

God alone, content with my weak efforts, [20]will raise me to Himself and make me a saint, clothing me in His infinite merits.

As St Boniface, he has long been regarded as the apostle of Germany,

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family,- a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.

My father was a saint. I'm not.

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

La fuerza y la originalidad con que el fundador del Opus Dei afirma este primado en el orden sobrenatural, es quizá solo comparable a la fuerza y originalidad con que santo Tomás de Aquino había afirmado este primado en el orden natural»[5]

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

God has great plans for you today… creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.