Quotes About Saints Among Us

#1. But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

Paul The Apostle

#2. An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.

Edward Gibbon

#3. There were thieves and hypocrites among us, to be sure, and true saints sprinkled here and there, but most were simply good, honest people who worshiped their Creator the best they knew how. We were a family.

Donna Chapman Gilbert

#4. I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

Joanne Harris

#5. For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

John Berger

#6. I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

Anne Rice

#7. With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

Helen Slater

#8. You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.

John F. Kerry

#9. I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

Robert Runcie

#10. Nikki, never underestimate the ability of the devils among us to see only the saints in themselves. How else could they go about their day?

Richard Castle

#11. Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.

Joseph Priestley

#12. Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

Honore De Balzac

#13. Over the last 2,000 years, 10,000 saints have been named, among them, 78 popes. At the time of his death, Pope John Paul II had the distinction of naming 482 saints, more than all of his predecessors combined.

Chris Matthews

#14. We have to have positive male role models.

Donald Miller

#15. Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It's so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#16. There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton

#17. A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.

Emmanuel Petit

#18. We are very excited about welcoming a new member of the family, a daughter!

Michael Weatherly

#19. Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be.
Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else ...

H.P. Lovecraft

#20. The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them

Radhe Maa