Saint Quotes

• It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.

  

  Pachomius the Great
  • Christian
  • Patience
  • Grace

• Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How awful those words of unloosing, after thirty years of bondage! I felt as if my chains fell, as those of Saint Peter at the touch of the divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul!

  

  Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • Lord
  • Bondage
  • Sacrament

• My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out, "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Father
  • Beautiful
  • Rage

• You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Saint
  • Sinner

• Over the last 2,000 years, 10,000 saints have been named, among them, 78 popes. At the time of his death, Pope John Paul II had the distinction of naming 482 saints, more than all of his predecessors combined.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Time
  • Death
  • Pope

• All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Father
  • Giving

• Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Earth
  • Trust
  • Jesus

• When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Nature

• Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms itself through television... I thought it would be interesting to copy the same language. large color pictures are framed in heavy wooden frames with golden plates and hung slightly higher than normal. So viewers get a sore neck watching these events, this is also the case when looking at paintings of saints in cathedrals.

  

  Carl De Keyzer
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Language

• Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Song
  • Black

• God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • God
  • Means
  • Plans

• The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Great
  • Words
  • Growing

• A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Saint

• A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Saint
  • Pretends
  • Bad Man

• Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Life
  • God
  • Saint

• Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

  

  Anna Hutchison
  • Conscience
  • Saint
  • Host

• The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Book
  • Peace

• O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Villain

• The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

  

  Nissim Ezekiel
  • Things
  • Sin
  • Usual

• To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • World
  • God
  • May

• Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Lost
  • Prayer

• To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ who is our life.

  

  W. Ian Thomas
  • People
  • Life
  • Systematic

• It is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.

  

  Eugenia Price
  • Mother
  • Saint
  • Considered

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