Top 60 Saint Or Sinner Quotes
#1. What if thou be saint or sinner,
Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,
Empty paunch, or jolly dinner,
When Death thee shall call.
All like are rich or richer,
King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher,
When the grave hides all.
Richard Watson Gilder
#2. I can't reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can't state at length what I've said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can't explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.
Omar Khayyam
#3. Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.
Patrick Roy
#4. The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#5. no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some saintly qualities. You can judge one for their mistakes, or you can love them for the flaws they try to correct.
C.M. Owens
#6. There is no sinner like a young saint.
Aphra Behn
#7. A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#8. To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#10. I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.
Thomas J. Paprocki
#11. The writer is neither saint nor tzaddik nor prophet standing at the gate; he's just another sinner who has a somewhat sharper awareness and uses slightly more precise language to describe the inconceivable reality of our world.
Etgar Keret
#12. 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
#14. The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Saint Bernard
#16. So who needs grace? All of us, the saint as well as the sinner. The most conscientious, dutiful, hardworking Christian needs
God's grace as much as the most dissolute, hard-living sinner. All of us need the same grace. The sinner does not need more grace than the saint,
Jerry Bridges
#17. Every saint has a past, the sixteenth-century poet had said, and every sinner has a future.
Jan Karon
#18. Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.
Mark Twain
#20. The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.
Thomas Watson
#21. An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
Sophie Kerr
#22. The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.
Catherine Booth
#23. One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.
Oscar Wilde
#24. The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace ... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
Dallas Willard
#25. Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no...
Ravi Howard
#26. I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
Charles Peguy
#27. No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.
Christopher Pike
#28. We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#29. I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.
Swami Vivekananda
#31. 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
Charles Spurgeon
#32. To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
Malachy McCourt
#33. a sinner is pleading to Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates: "Wait, those weren't lies," the sinner says. "That was spin!
Mark Leibovich
#34. O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.
Saint Basil
#35. You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.
Mark Hart
#36. Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."
Kumi Naidoo
#38. The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.
Steven J. Lawson
#39. Take his name.
Because I love him.
Because when I look into his eyes, nothing else exists but him.
Because even when I don't look into his eyes, nothing else exists but him.
rachels thought
Katy Evans
#41. Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment.
Criss Jami
#43. A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#45. What matters is the sinner becomes a saint through the grace of salvation in Christ Jesus.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
Alexander Pope
#47. The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.
Charles Peguy
#48. Sinner" and "saint" are waves of differing size and magnitude on the surface of the same sea. Each is a natural outcome of forces in the universe; each is governed by time and causation. Nobody is utterly lost, and nobody need despair
David James Duncan
#49. The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.
Max Lucado
#50. Every sinner needs a saint to balance them out,
K. Bromberg
#51. There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids, and as subtle in color. The life of the senses was
described in the terms of mystical philosophy. One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some medieval saint or the
morbid confessions of a modern sinner.
Charlotte Bronte
#52. All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.
Christopher West
#53. The saint and the sinner are twin brothers ... one was born but the moment before the other.
Khalil Gibran
#54. I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#55. The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.
Oscar Wilde
#57. All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind. When there is no mind, there is no sinner and no saint, and the gift simply showers on you.
Rajneesh
#58. God made His own Son to be sin that He might make the sinner a saint.
Oswald Chambers
#59. He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.
Jerome K. Jerome
#60. Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
Juvenal
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