Saint Martin Quotes

#1. Have we," asks Claude de Saint-Martin, the great 'unknown philosopher,' "have we advanced one step further on the radiant path of enlightenment, that leads to the simplicity of men?" Let us wait in silence: perhaps ere long we shall be conscious of "the murmur of the gods.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#2. It was the confession of a saint. -Martin Ladvenu

Susan Banfield

#3. A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

Martin Luther

#4. I did not hear her go or come back, but I supposed she went.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#5. History is a record of exploded ideas.

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

#6. A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

Martin E. Marty

#7. Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.

Martin Luther

#8. Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

Martin Of Tours

#9. As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us.

Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

#10. Everyone here felt like they were on the brink of something, when in fact they were only on the brink of the end.

Lauren Kate

#11. At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body, the mind.

Paul Valery

#12. Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

#13. All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.

Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

#14. 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

#15. For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.

Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

#16. Wildflowers don't care where they grow.

Dolly Parton

#17. I have to do draft after draft ... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.

Donald Hall

#18. No great saint lived without errors.

Martin Luther

#19. Joining the ranks of some notables who had penned powerful stuff behind bars. Saint Paul, the apostle. John Bunyan. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Martin Luther King Jr. But,

Craig Parshall

#20. I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.

Harry Connick Jr.

#21. DID YOU JUST CALL ME A LOSER?" Bear roared back. "No, I called myself a loser," I said, and slammed my door. "Loser.

James Patterson

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

Ralph Abernathy

#23. One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.

Martin Filler

#24. I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

#25. All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

#26. I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

Nelson DeMille

#27. Starting the morning without prayer is like starting a car without gas.

Todd Stocker

#28. I love him, I think as he sits down across from me. I love him, I think as he looks up at the ceiling and then back down at me, so much raw pain shining out of his eyes. I love him, I think as he tells me he's going away.

Heather Lyons

#29. Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed - and never will

Martin Wolf

#30. God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.

Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

#31. Sometimes I think that one reason we begin praying to a saint is that the saint has already been praying for us.

James Martin