Quotes About Saints

Rough times. Qhuinn shrugged. And I'm not interested in saints. Really? You're in love with one, Layla chimed in. As Qhuinn glanced over at Blay, his mismatched eyes narrowed. Damn straight I am, he said softly. As the redhead turned red--natch--that connection between the two males became positively tangible. Love was such a beautiful thing.

Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them.

But we cannot all be saints. Some of us have to be stewards.

But you see, it is the wilderness that weeds out the saints from the "aint's.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

churches start looking for bodies to fill slots rather than spiritually alive saints to assume responsibility.

I told my students that the greatest liability they will have is old saints who never matured

AS BELIEVERS, WE ARE NOT TRYING TO BECOME SAINTS; WE ARE SAINTS WHO ARE BECOMING LIKE CHIRST.

We are not sinners in the hands of an angry God; we are saints who sin in the hands of a loving God.

Saints, Slaves, and Blacks is a treasure. It touches on pivotal topics in American history. It is American religious history at its finest. And it dealt with complex issues of faith, religion, church, race, politics, and social standing that still impact most of us. Edward J. Blum San Diego State University

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

Origen himself warned that in "advanced matters of theology absolute confidence is possible only for two classes of people, saints and idiots.

Three years later, Mr. Turley has received no reply to his letter. Nor can anybody account for the missing money: saints, it seems, are immune to audit.

Because the persecuting majority is vile, says the liberal, therefore the persecuted minority must be stainlessly pure. Can't you see what nonsense that is? What's to prevent the bad from being persecuted by the worse? Did all the Christian victims in the arena have to be saints?

To dwell in love with saints above— Oh that will be glory! But to dwell below with saints we know— Ah! That's a different story!

master did not share the austere habits of the Benedictines and did not like to eat in silence. For that matter, he spoke always of things so good and wise that it was as if a monk were reading to us the lives of the saints.

But the more unsaintly the world became, the more it had need of new saints, by whatever name they were called—persons who believed in justice and freedom more than they believed in personal comfort and the good opinion of the personally comfortable.