Top 100 A Saint Quotes
#3. Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.
Martin Luther
#4. What do you want to want to be, anyway?"
"I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic."
"What you should say"
he told me
"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.
Thomas Merton
#5. I # forgive not because I became a saint, but because I'm tired of hating.
Paulo Coelho
#6. [To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!
Carrie Nation
#7. Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
Albert Camus
#8. Saw him as a saint. His attitude silenced me. From that moment on, if he had been brought back to me dead on a stretcher, I would not have cared. He cannot hurt me any more.
Anais Nin
#9. At times Maharajji's behavior reminds me of a story Ramakrishna tells of a saint who asked a snake not to bite but to love everyone. The snake agreed. But then many people threw things at the snake. The saint found the snake all battered. "I didn't say not to hiss," said the saint.
Ram Dass
#10. As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.
Alexander Hamilton
#11. It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
George Santayana
#12. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.
Philippa Gregory
#13. You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
Charles Spurgeon
#14. Everybody is called to become a saint. Not everybody's gonna be canonized by the Church ... The only thing about being canonized is you're already dead so you don't even get to go to the party.
Lino Rulli
#15. St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint.
Peter Kreeft
#16. A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her deepest identity, is a saint, a spiritually born child of God, a divine masterpiece, a child of light, a citizen of heaven.
Neil T. Anderson
#18. I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
Ralph Abernathy
#19. I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
Donald Miller
#21. The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
Oswald Chambers
#22. Let go of me or slow down," she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him.
He slowed down. "I swear to God, you try the patience of a saint."
"You aren't a saint, Brodick, no matter what your mother might have told you.
Julie Garwood
#24. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
Thomas Merton
#25. I understood this man was a Saint," he said.
"Something even rarer," said Dr. Urbino, "An atheistic saint. But those are matters for God to decide.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#27. Damn it, Bennett," I panted. "How in the hell do you know exactly how to drive me insane?" He trailed his tongue along my inner thigh. "I said I was a virgin, Avery. Not a saint.
Christina Lee
#28. You could have Charles Manson as a father and end up a saint; you could have Mother Theresa as a mother and end up a serial killer. At the end of the day, you define the person you become. Not a strand of DNA. Not the parents you didn't get to choose. You." I
Julie Johnson
#29. I am not a saint; I am a sinner. I want to sin again and
again and again.
S. Jae-Jones
#30. It is an injustice to say that Jesus Christ labored in redemption to make me a saint. Jesus Christ labored in redemption to redeem the whole world and to place it perfectly whole and restored before God.
Oswald Chambers
#31. You'd test the patience of a saint.
Ken Bruen
#32. Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.
George C. Lorimer
#33. Hawk was a fucking selfless savior, practically a saint. Where were his wings?
V. Theia
#35. No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human. We smile a last smile, and I walk away. I feel her watching me, but I don't look back.
Markus Zusak
#36. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
Henry Ward Beecher
#37. It was foolish to cast someone as a saint just because they had suffered.
Eric Greitens
#38. A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.
William Benton Clulow
#39. You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.
Ellis Peters
#40. You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
Therese Of Lisieux
#41. A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.
Peter Kreeft
#42. Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#43. No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.
Christopher Pike
#44. Snape is all grey. You can't make him a saint: he was vindictive & bullying. You can't make him a devil: he died to save the wizarding world.
J.K. Rowling
#45. To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Charles Baudelaire
#46. It is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.
Eugenia Price
#47. Understand two thoughts, and fear them. One says, "You are a saint," the other, "You won't be saved." Both of these thoughts are from the enemy, and there is no truth in them. But think this way: I am a great sinner, but the Lord is merciful. He loves people very much, and He will forgive my sins.
Silouan The Athonite
#48. My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi
#49. The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.
John Updike
#50. A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
Victor Hugo
#51. I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Nelson Mandela
#52. If a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets." Then he'd get up and leave. Or he'd write, "If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather." These were his ways of teaching me about how motivation affects perception.
Ram Dass
#53. A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
Irma S. Rombauer
#54. Franny Armstrong is a mother of three and a grandmother of four. Her husband supports her imagination and has the patience of a saint. She's been writing since she was a child, creating plays to act out in front of the neighborhood children.
Franny Armstrong
#55. If being a saint is complete devotion to a cause, bravery and altruism, then I think Mrs Sendlerowa fulfils all the conditions.I think about her the way you think about someone you owe your life to.
Irena Sendler
#56. Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
Alexander Pope
#57. Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.
Kathryn Harrison
#58. Father Nicanor was against a religious ceremony and burial in consecrated ground.
Ursula stood up to him. In a way that neither you nor I can understand, that man was a saint,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#59. I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I'll give you everything until I collapse. That's not in any 'Look at me, I'm a saint' kind of way. It's very selfish in a way. I'm doing this really awesome exploration, and it's like a drug, because I completely disappear.
Ellen Page
#60. Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
Thomas Watson
#61. And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint Jerome. How is that a saint?
You've got shitty mothers all over America who would love to dump their kids and travel.
Amy Bloom
#62. 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
#63. A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
Kurt Vonnegut
#66. The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.
Brooke Westcott
#67. To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.
Frederick Buechner
#68. I know there's still good in you, Jude," I whispered. "You were always such a saint ... and now you're lost. But you're still my brother.
Bree Despain
#69. The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.
Charles Fort
#70. Two things, Gordon. First, a man doesn't need to tell his friends that it happened to prove that it happened. And second, if a woman is willing to take her clothes off and let you fuck her, you'd do well to treat that with some respect. Because that woman is probably a saint.
Alexa Riley
#71. I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
Allen Ginsberg
#72. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.
Christopher Pike
#73. A saint is long past any desire for distinction; he is the only sort of superior man who has never been a superior person.
G.K. Chesterton
#74. A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
Laurence Housman
#76. He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.
Graham Greene
#77. God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
Therese De Lisieux
#78. I'll be a straitjacketed bookworm burrowed into the binding of an insane, homicidal book, staring helplessly out from the pages of my own life, as they're writ by someone else, and I'd commit atrocities that would damn a saint's soul.
Karen Marie Moning
#80. Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.
Mark Hart
#81. A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
Frederick William Robertson
#83. When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint.
-Della
C.C. Hunter
#85. A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.
Coventry Patmore
#86. To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?
Shusaku Endo
#87. A saint or monk can afford to be compassionate to all, but a leader or boss cannot always be kind. He may soon be without a job himself if he is unduly compassionate, and chances are, no one would show him any compassion then.
Awdhesh Singh
#88. Insane", he says simply. "Hopeless. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son his a devil and should not.
Philippa Gregory
#89. Patience of a saint. The mind of a sinner.
Ella Frank
#90. Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
Ellis Peters
#91. I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
Isabel Allende
#92. It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
Jerome K. Jerome
#93. I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
Lana Turner
#94. It was harder to see how a boy like that, so inspired by a saint, could be attracted to a sinner like me.
Amy Harmon
#95. Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.
Teresa Of Avila
#96. I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.
Van Jones
#97. I like your mom," Adam said as they watched her walk away.
"She's a saint."
"Jake," his father called.
"And that's the reason why," Jake murmured.
Sarah Addison Allen
#98. It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.
Mike Nichols
#99. I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
Ethel Waters
#100. You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.
Frederick Lenz
