Saint Quotes
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What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
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When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.
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I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.
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Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.
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To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
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No, to produce ideas you don't have to be a saint. And anyway there are very few true intellectuals. The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against every possible rival.
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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.
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Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
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A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.
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No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
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Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.
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I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.
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No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.
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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
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Saints cannot exist without a community
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Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.
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I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.
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Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.
