Quotes About Saints

These are a new sort of saints, which the world hath hardly been ac quainted with before these unhappy days of ours; they would be in heaven before their time, and leave no tears on their cheeks for Christ at death to wipe away.

It hath been the constant practice of the saints in all their dangers and straits, whether from enemies within or without, from sin, devils, or men, to betake themselves tot he throne of grace, and draw a line of prayer about them; accounting this the only safe posture to stand in for their defence.

Over the past century, researchers have studied business entrepreneurs extensively.. In contrast, social entrepreneurs have received little attention. Historically, they have been cast as humanitarians or saints, and stories of their work have been passed down more in the form of children's tales than case studies. While the stories may inspire, they fail to make social entrepreneurs' methods comprehensible. One can analyze an entrepreneur, but how does one analyze a saint?

We sometimes think of saint, or of people who are living like saints, as being ethereal, living in a higher spiritual realm. But of ten enough they live in an even less ethereal way than the rest of us. They are more fully of this earth, more fully engaged in the dirty, practical problems of the people around them.

My duty, I know, is to lead. I cannot offer an array of options. I must offer a long but narrow path to Salvation, and guide the Saints down it. Were that path wide and varied, it would lead nowhere; and I will then have failed both God and man.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.

O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls.

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

God, deliver me from sullen saints.

The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.