Quotes about Saints

16 quotes about Saints

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Quote by Sfanta Tereza De Avila about saints

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing...

Quote by Aristotel about saints

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the...

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Quote by Billy Joel about saints

They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun.

Quote by Billy Joel about saints

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means, nor must we ever...

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means, nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Quote by William Penn about saints

Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life, a belief of the forgotten being inside me, the stranger that I am, headed for nowhere, knowing that where it is I will find my fulfilment through...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about saints

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Quote by George Orwell about saints

Saints are sinners who manage to find their way.

Saints are sinners who manage to find their way.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson about saints

I pray thee leave, love me no more, Call home the heart...

I pray thee leave, love me no more, Call home the heart you gave me, I but in vain the saint adore, That can, but will not, save me.

Quote by Michael Drayton about saints

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My...

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Quote by Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi about saints

Blooming limes I feel enlightened up to my last...

Blooming limes I feel enlightened up to my last loneliness I am a saint of the whole flower from Earth

Quote by Nicolae Ionel about saints

Capitalism requires people to be pious souls in the...

Capitalism requires people to be pious souls in the workplace and wild pagans at the cash registrer.

Quote by Ronald Chernow about saints

Heroes are the saints of every nation.

Heroes are the saints of every nation.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about saints

Saints are those who managed to love more than we did.

Saints are those who managed to love more than we did.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about saints

Well, I can't help people falling in love with me. There's no Act of Parliament against it, and if people will do these foolish things they must take the consequences.

Quote by Henry Arthur Jones about saints

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet...

Quote by Francis McCourt about saints

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