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Quotes About Saints

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Sería ilusorio pensar que el futuro del cristianismo depende de la habilidad de adaptar el mensaje cristiano al mundo moderno. Depende —en lo que a nosotros respecta— del empeño por la santidad personal, por la identificación con Cristo, de todos y cada uno. Siempre será actual el diagnóstico de aquella afirmación: «estas crisis mundiales son crisis de santos»[84
~ Fernando Ocáriz
Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God's holy temple, but I don't think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I've known have been those with physical infirmities.
~ Billy Graham
Christians should seek after holiness—without which no man shall see the Lord. Let us seek ardently the kind of life that reflects the beauty of Jesus and marks us as being what saints ought to be!
~ Billy Graham
Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were "wheelchair" saints. May God give you grace to "triumph in affliction.
~ Billy Graham
Christians, saints of God, pray that the dew of heaven may fall on earth's dry thirsty ground, and that righteousness may cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
~ Billy Graham
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
~ Billy Joel
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
~ Billy Joel
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun.
~ Billy Joel
Everyone is a hypocrite in one sense or another and I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
~ Billy Joel
No one saint could ever exhaustively express the infinite holiness of God; and therefore, God makes saints the way he makes plants and animals and stars: exuberantly, effervescently, and with a preference for wild diversity.
~ Bishop Robert Barron
Yonder stands your orphan with his gunCrying like a fire in the sunLook out, the saints are comin' throughAnd it's all over now, Baby Blue.
~ Bob Dylan
I am in love with your sinners," responded Theron, as he shook hands with Celia, and trusted himself to look fully into her eyes. "I've had five days of the saints, over in another part of the woods, and they've bored the head off me.
~ Harold Frederic
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'
~ Annie Besant
The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.
~ Drew Brees
It's such a shame, really, because we were known for our country of saints and scholars, and we grew up with such a great tradition with St. Patrick, and he is the one who brought Christianity to Ireland, and we celebrate St. Patrick's day every single year, but there's very few practising Catholics or practising Christians.
~ Katie Taylor
I don't like traffic cameras. In fact, I hate them. But that doesn't mean I can break the speed limit and run red lights to get to a New Orleans Saints game.
~ John Kennedy
The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.
~ Max Heindel
Thought for today: We are saved, called with a holy calling-called to be saints, holy, pure, Godlike, sons with power.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
A preacher should not land at a place and say that God had sent him. I am always fearful when I hear a man advertising this. If he is sent of God, the saints will know it.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
All the saints of God who get the real vision of this wonderful transformation are seeing every day that the world is getting worse and worse. It is ripening for Judgment.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
With mind far off, not thinking of death's coming, Performing these meaningless activities, Returning empty-handed now would be complete confusion; The need is recognition, the spiritual teachings, So why not practice the path of wisdom at this very moment? From the mouths of the saints come these words: If you do not keep your master's teaching in your heart Will you not become your own deceiver?
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
But however much that virtue may be praised and cried up, which without true piety is the slave of human glory, it is not at all to be compared even to the feeble beginnings of the virtue of the saints, whose hope is placed in the grace and mercy of the true God.
~ St. Augustine