Saints Quotes

• On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Worth
  • Unregenerate

• The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Church
  • Sinners

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

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Saints
  • Appointment

• May God protect me from gloomy saints.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Me
  • Protect

• Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Christ
  • Torture

• The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • God
  • Sacrifice
  • Saints

• Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Only
  • Saints
  • Acceptable

• Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in the small events of life as well as when they are confronted with the giant Goliaths of life.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Saints

• Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Nature
  • Human

• God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Jesus

• Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Saints
  • Fearful
  • Penances

• Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Pain
  • Heaven
  • Blessed

• America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep; Thou bearest angels to us in the night, Saints out of heaven with palms. Seen by thy light Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep; Love is a pouting child.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Sleep
  • Heaven
  • Angels

• 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.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • May
  • Purpose

• 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
  • God
  • Creates
  • Sinners

• Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Saints
  • Meant

• It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Meeting
  • Saints
  • Sinners

• The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Important
  • Prayer

• Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Art
  • Character
  • Knowledge

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

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • May
  • Judging

• Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Saints
  • Libraries
  • Reposed

• Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Saints
  • Single Men
  • Barricks

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