Quotes About Saints

There is no patron saint of estate agents because no estate agent has ever become a saint. There have been saints who were sailors, blacksmiths, soldiers, bakers, teachers, housewives, swineherds, kings even. But in the whole of history, not one estate agent ever became a saint or even a blessed. It makes you think.

S'il est des hommes apparemment bornés qui sont saints, et des hommes apparemment saints qui en réalité sont bornés, et s'il est des poissons qui volent et des oiseaux qui nagent, — si Dieu aime, dans sa création, ce jeu de compensations, de surprises, ce jeu de cache-cache où tout peut être tout, — c'est en vertu de son infinité qui ne saurait s'arrêter à des limites.

she told him she'd grown up in a household where music was the religion and composers were its saints. Cantatas were chapels. Pavanes were prayer. Fugues were the firmament and God existed in every note.

Christopher Dawson was one of the most counter-cultural of all intellectuals. As the world rejected God, Dawson embraced God. As the world rejected myth, Dawson embraced myth. As the world rejected the significance of prophets, Dawson attempted to speak as one. As the world mocked the saints as superstition, Dawson regarded them as the only lights—reflecting the true light of the Logos—in history.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men- those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.

Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.

I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.

If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.

The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick - who was an Irishman only by adoption.

he realized that the path of love, which Bertlef had suggested, was closed to him; it was the path of saints, not of ordinary men.

Mas quando voltou a representar-se Ruzena uma luz mais viva, compreendeu que a via do amor, que Bertlef lhe estava a sugerir, era para si impraticável - tratava-se da via dos santos e não da dos homens comuns.

We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever.

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

They followed her, walking supererogatively on tiptoe, as though afraid to awaken the saints in whom they had never believed.

Perhaps some of them chose Schwester Kasimira's way, glorying in their discomfort because they knew that Jesus Christ hadn't stayed at the Ritz either. Perhaps there were unknown saints, Saint Ignatius Loyolas queuing at bus stops and Saint Augustines of Hippo giving up their seats on the tram. The thought made him briefly happy, seeming consecrate some of the aridity of his soldiering.

If they were to eliminate all those who were homosexually oriented, the number would be so staggering that it would be like an atomic bomb. It would do the same damage to the Church's operation," Sipe said. "And it's very much against the tradition of the Church. Many saints had a gay orientation. And many popes had gay orientations. Discriminating against orientation is not going to solve the problem.

The Saints - it gave people joy.

Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.

Mabel said. "Doesn't it seem unlikely that every one of them were saints? And what's the thrust here, that we can't mourn the flawed?

Particularly in the East, in the fourth and fifth centuries, dirtiness became a uniquely Christian badge of holiness. This particular mortification of the flesh was known as alousia, "the state of being unwashed," and was largely chosen by hermits, monks and saints.