Quotes About Saints

The sweep of the hierarchy's betrayals, in scope and depth, is staggeringly new. And to gauge the likelihood of that hierarchy's facing the truth of what it has done and what it has become, consider this: The two contemporary maestros of denial, Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II, have, in the very years of the scandal they enabled, been named as saints of the Catholic Church.

Has this present lack of vigor resulted, at least in part, from failure to attack the kingdom of darkness by forceful prayer and preaching? What does God tell us about the source of our glory as His saints?

Sometimes I think that one reason we begin praying to a saint is that the saint has already been praying for us.

If prayer flew as quickly as gossip, all the saints in heaven could not keep up with it.

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. —Revelation 16:6

The appetite for saints of either sex, gurus, wise women and men, is unappeasable, and this means that the most unlikely material becomes sanctified. I myself have had to fight off attempts to turn me into a wise old woman. All that happens is that disillusioned fans and disciples attack unfairly where once they unwisely venerated.

No," said Erskine of Dun. "Come naked of creed or of kind or even of purpose, but bring with you what Orkney saw, all those years ago. We are too small a nation to be able to spare saints to Rome or Geneva, or any other refugees seeking to glorify either the flesh or the spirit. There is no one to understand us, except ourselves." "That I know," said Francis Crawford.

For Krishna to be such an international icon, so to speak, means there are various perspectives on him. Saints, philosophers and historians have their own take on him. While reading about their perspectives, a story took form in my mind and that's how 'Krishna' happened.

What if we don't have a strong desire for God? What if we only half-heartedly desire to make progress on the path to full union with God? The Scripture and the teaching of the saints makes clear that when we lack something essential for the spiritual journey—such as a strong desire for God—then we are to ask for it, and it will be given. Not all at once necessarily, but gradually, over time, as we persevere in asking.

The saints tell us that usually, even in the very midst of exterior and interior trials, a deep-seated peace is felt. Persevering in the midst of these trials is a very important part of uniting our will to God's—and in His will is our peace.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Our saints have always been theives and murderers. That's the proof of the loftiness of their hearts. (spoken by Ulrich's neighbor)

Oh come, please come, to the Poor Mouth Fair Where the Saints kneel round in their underwear And say out prayers that most need saying For needful sinners who've forgotten praying; And in every alcove and niche you spy The living dead who envy the long since gone Who never wished to die.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

Saints are merely tyrants in the kingdom of virtue.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

Even Saints, I believe, are never cannonized until years after they've been carried to bed on six men's shoulders.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of Christ.

He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.