Quotes About Being A Saint

#1. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.

Robertson Davies

#2. Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a saint without it being edited out of my story.

Regina Doman

#3. We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Patti, did art get us?'
I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'
Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.

Patti Smith

#5. If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.

McCall Hoyle

#6. The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which.

Joyce Cary

#7. If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

Saint Augustine

#8. My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

David Maraniss

#9. Whatever you may do for your brother, being hungry, and a stranger, and naked, not even the devil will be able to despoil, but it will be laid up in an inviolabe treasure.

Saint John Chrysostom

#10. Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.

Saint Frances De Sales

#11. Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

Dave Barry

#12. You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.

Sarah Dessen

#13. A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

Edward James Olmos

#14. Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

Saint Ignatius

#15. Christians have inherited from Saint Augustine and from Plato the vision of this transient world as an icon of another and changeless order. They understand the sacred as a revelation in the here and now of the eternal sense of our being.

Roger Scruton

#16. The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

#17. The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

Anthony De Mello

#18. Saint Thomas declared that woman was an "inessential" being, which, from a masculine point of view, is a way of positing the accidental character of sexuality.

Simone De Beauvoir

#19. To be a saint is to be yourself.

Thomas Merton

#20. To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare days when a comedian has no jokes, people pardon the lapse. There is no forgiving a saint's occasional day of sin.

Libbie Block

#21. Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#22. Dealing with Dillan being a jerk can mess up any saint on a good day. And you know I'm no saint.

Kate Evangelista

#23. She realized in an instant that being around him awakened her, stirring the sediment that had long ago settled at the bottom of her well. He made her feel a part of him, of something larger, and somehow more alive.

Luna Saint Claire

#24. The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

Saint Augustine

#25. Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.

Augustine Of Hippo

#26. I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

Ralph Abernathy

#27. Well, hell, Rico. You're wasting your time being a hotelier when you should be a saint.

Maureen Child

#28. When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

Oswald Chambers

#29. I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#30. Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#31. A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

Saint Bernard

#32. Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

Colin Farrell

#33. It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

Ford Madox Ford

#34. 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

#35. I happen to love Saint-Saens in general. I think he's a brilliant composer and sometimes underrated in a way because people like to pass him off as fluffy and not being serious.

Joshua Bell

#36. The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.

Saint John Chrysostom

#37. Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Saint Augustine

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#41. For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

Saint Augustine

#42. Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

#43. 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

#44. Saint Thomas Aquinas explains how, with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, a person's whole spiritual being becomes responsive to God's light, not only the light of knowledge but also the inspiration of love. I have prayed for the gifts of the Holy Spirit since my youth and I continue to do so.

Pope John Paul II

#45. The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."

William Hazlitt

#46. The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

Saint Augustine

#47. I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

Annie Lennox

#48. I have to tell you hon, I don't mind a little teasing now and then, but I'm no masochist and I'm sure as hell no saint ... here lately, being around you is agony.

Jackson Broussard

#49. The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

Max Von Sydow

#50. The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet--that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

Oswald Chambers

#51. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

Saint Augustine

#52. Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Anita Brookner

#53. Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint.

Zach Braff

#54. Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.

Ellis Peters

#55. Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint.

Charles Duhigg

#56. Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.

Frederick Lenz

#57. A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#58. The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.

Saint Boniface