Saint Quotes
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I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.
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Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the first desert mystics, frequently encountered strange and sometimes terrifying psychophysical forces while at prayer.
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Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.
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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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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
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What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.
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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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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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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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No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.
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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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A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.
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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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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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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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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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Saints cannot exist without a community
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.
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Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.
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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
