Quotes About Saint

Something in me didnt believe that. I read it again, trying to make sense of the old-fashioned language. Mason watched me curiously, looking like he very much wanted to help. "Maybe they were hooking up," he suggested. I laughed. "He was a saint. " "So? Saints probably like sex too. That 'brother and sister' stuff is probably a cover." He pointed to one of the lines. "See? They were 'bound' together." He winked. "It's code.

I hope he's just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel.

Each of us is part heroine or hero and part coward, part parent and part child, part saint and part thief. It is in learning to identify these great archetypal motifs within ourselves, learning to honor each one as a legitimate human trait, learning to live out the energy of each in a constructive way, that we make inner work a great odyssey of the spirit.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

The grace of God transforms the sinner into saint.

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

For example, the chief goddess of Celtic Ireland prior to the coming of Christianity was Brigid. When Ireland was Christianised, Brigid too was baptised. She became St Brigit, who to this day is the most revered saint in Catholic Ireland.

In a universe where visible matter accounts for only 0.01 percent of creation, it would be foolish to undertake science without a sense that reality is extremely mysterious. Dark energy exists on the fringe of the unknowable, and so does a saint who exists without eating. The simplistic logic and outmoded science applied by Dawkins and company don't remotely approach how reality works.

If architectural excess were a religion, Hunt was surely its patron saint, placing the most ornate of roofs over the heads of the city's elite from cradle to crypt.

Funny though. If he finds a way to make a morally just cause heard, he becomes a saint...His worst enemy is himself. Which is what you have to deal with if you want to be with him. He's anxious like the show-off drunk at a karaoke bar when the words don't come up on the screen. Make sure you give him the script so he has something to read from.

An alien priory, only a few miles distant, with its own miracle-working saint, and the great Benedictine house of Shrewsbury as empty of relics as a plundered almsbox! It was more than Prior Robert could stomach. He had been scouring the borderlands for a spare saint now for a year or more, looking hopefully towards Wales, where it was well known that holy men and women had been common as mushrooms in autumn in the past, and as little re

Actually, Saint Peter was in jail, one time -- I laugh. Babies don't go in jail. This happened when they were all grown up. I didn't know Baby Jesus grows up.

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

Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.

Yes, he's Saint Nicholas now!" They all took up the shout, and the whole town joined the glad cry, "Saint Nicholas! Saint Nicholas!" A baby's voice tried to add his stumbling speech to the general shout. "Sant' Clos! Sant' Clos!" he lisped.

And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint Jerome. How is that a saint? You've got shitty mothers all over America who would love to dump their kids and travel.

Indeed, Fred Rogers and his gentle care of children seemed to embody the words credited to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the gospel at all times; if necessary, use words.

Surely this is no more unreasonable than asking some saint or divinity what one should do.

While it is true that outside the library I have lived a life of wickedness, inside it I've always been as devoted to knowledge as a saint to his Bible.

I'm called Anne because my mother, who was devout, prayed to St. Anne every day of her pregnancy with me.