Top 49 Quotes About Saint Peter

#1. a sinner is pleading to Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates: "Wait, those weren't lies," the sinner says. "That was spin!

Mark Leibovich

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#2. What matters is not your outward appearance ... but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

Saint Peter

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#3. O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!

Peter Julian Eymard

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#4. Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

Peter Agre

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#5. If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

Peter Kreeft

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#6. Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.

Peter Kreeft

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#7. Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale!

Herman Melville

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#8. When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#9. The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one ...

Peter Kreeft

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#10. Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints ... He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

Peter Kreeft

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#11. Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

Peter Kreeft

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#12. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Saint Peter

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#13. Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.

Sabine Baring-Gould

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#14. Pride is really very simple. It is the attitude of the spoiled brat: "I want what I want when I want it, and if you say No to me, I hate you." "Thy will be done" is the essential prayer of the saint; "my will be done" is the essential demand of the sinner.

Peter Kreeft

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#15. Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things!

Peter Julian Eymard

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#16. High and holy ambition
to be a saint
is not opposed to holy humility
total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.

Peter Kreeft

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#17. Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.

Peter Saint James

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#18. Actually, Saint Peter was in jail, one time
"
I laugh. "Babies don't go in jail."
"This happened when they were all grown up."
I didn't know Baby Jesus grows up.

Emma Donoghue

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#19. Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

Peter Kreeft

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#20. God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God's love for us.

Saint Peter

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#21. Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

George Herbert

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#22. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

Peter Shaffer

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#23. Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

George Weigel

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#24. The meaning of life is to become a saint.

Peter Kreeft

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#25. You are the worst greeter in the history of greeters ever. In the history. Of time. And greeters." "Greeter? You think I'm a greeter?" Talk about a demotion. "Yes. To the other side?" She pointed up. "Dude, calling me a greeter is like calling Saint Peter a ticket taker.

Darynda Jones

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#26. Do you really think anyone needs some kind of notarized statement saying
'Dear Saint Peter, here's another stiff, pass him through the gates, signed, Father McGonnigill.' ... 'PS: He once had a hot dog on a Friday, but don't hold that against him.'

P.N. Elrod

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#27. All the way to Heaven is Heaven", said Saint Catherine of Siena. We

Peter Kreeft

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#28. When he gets to heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "Just another soldier reporting, Sir. I've served my time in Hell.

Me

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#29. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts

Saint Peter

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#30. When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

Peter Kreeft

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#31. A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

Peter Kreeft

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#32. It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.

Saint Peter

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#33. Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

Peter Kreeft

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#34. When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person.

Peter Sis

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#35. Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.

Saint Peter

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#36. 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

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#37. The universal sin Saint Paul pinpoints in Romans 1:18 is to suppress the truth.

Peter Kreeft

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#38. Bell, book, and candle, candle book and bell, forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
Anon you shall hear a hog grunt,a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
Because it is Saint Peter's holy day

Christopher Marlowe

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#39. In the course of his ongoing crusade for Medicaid expansion, Ohio governor John Kasich has suggested that Ronald Reagan, Saint Peter, and God Himself all would support his plan to accept Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.

Edwin Meese

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#40. You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

Peter Kreeft

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#41. Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing,

Saint Peter

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#42. Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
[Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]

George Herbert

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#43. Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

Peter Kreeft

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#44. Great saints are never wimps.

Peter Kreeft

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#45. If you had the chance to visit paradise or heaven, would you? Are you thinking you'll get another chance later? What if you reach the Pearly Gates, and Saint Peter says, 'Hey, you had plenty of opportunities to spend time in heavenly places down there. Sorry.

Ron Lizzi

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#46. To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.

Peter Claver

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#47. Our Lord said. Be yourself with the good Lord.

Saint Peter

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#48. Live with passion and compassion, proceed with optimism, value disciplined thinking, be open to intimacy and love the mystery.

Saint Peter

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#49. Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

Peter Kreeft

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