Quotes About Saint Anthony

#1. A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a cocktail waitress, the picture would be two such bands of light. Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is just dead machinery.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. You made this?'
Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. People give the worst advice about lost things. Retrace your steps. Pray to Saint Anthony. Think about where you last saw it. But that doesn't apply to the things that matter. Those are right in front of you, except they can't be found by looking for them. Only by looking at everything else.

Kristen Lepionka

#4. Physical constraints pale in comparison to mental ones. Now, repeat after me. We pray to Saint Anthony of Padua that the lost be found. That the soul be free. That life be everlasting.

Rebekah Crane

#5. 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.

Willigis Jager

#6. Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

David Gross

#7. The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.

Anthony Of Padua

#8. About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business ... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.

Ken Watanabe

#9. There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#10. I would never lie about shoes. I have morals.

Heather Cocks

#11. We are Malouins first, say the people of Saint-Malo.

Anthony Doerr

#12. She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

Frederick Buechner

#13. Once she kissed me, my heart slowed, and every muscle in my body relaxed. How much I needed her terrified me. -pg 252/ARC

Jamie McGuire

#14. The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.

Anthony Of Padua

#15. For what is better than love? Imagine a world without the sun, a world without the smile of a baby or the flight of a butterfly, all of which are manifestations of love. A world without love is not a world worth having

Alexandra McBrayer

#16. I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.

Bear Bryant

#17. Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

Anthony Of Padua

#18. If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?

Jack Ma

#19. It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.

Anthony Of Sourozh

#20. Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well.

Anthony Mary Claret

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

Anthony De Mello

#22. A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.

St. Anthony The Great

#23. In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.

Claire Bloom

#24. The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

Anthony De Mello

#25. Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

Anthony Of Padua

#26. Slowly, her slim hand smoothed over the swell of his buttock, lingering there. A shocked laugh choked his throat, the sound muddled by a stifled groan that her intrigued touch elicited. The saucy little sneak thief was copping a feel. He felt inclined to turn around and let her get a handful.

Kristen Callihan

#27. The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

Anthony Trollope