Quotes and Sayings about Saints
"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Religion, Catholicism, Saints)
"I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at."
- Chris Bailey
(Related: Philosophy, Saints, Years)
"I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself."
- Elizabeth Barton
(Related: Angels, Saints, Satan)
"Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown."
- Thomas Becket
(Related: Faith, Truth, Christ, Effort, Saints, Storms)
"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"
- Samuel Beckett
(Related: People, Saints)
"For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most."
- Annie Besant
(Related: Women, Thought, Christian, Church, Evil, Leaders, Saints)
"Great writers are the saints for the godless."
- Anita Brookner
(Related: Saints, Writers)
"There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life."
- Charles Buck
(Related: Life, God, Law, Perfection, Saints)
"In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints."
- Frederick Buechner
(Related: God, Flirtation, Saints, World)
"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."
- Abigail Van Buren
(Related: Church, Saints)
"I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past."
- Mike Ditka
(Related: Goal, Past)
"The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall."
- Mary Douglas
(Related: Old, Saints, World)
"The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: God, Contrast, Saints)
"Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another."
- William Gurnall
(Related: Christ, May, Saints)
"And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn."
- William Gurnall
(Related: Work, God, Court, Friends, Prison, Saints)
"The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints."
- Matthew Henry
(Related: Saints)
"I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man."
- Charlton Heston
(Related: Man, Saints)
"On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Related: Life, End, Saints, Worth)
"Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Conscience, Saints)
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun."
- Billy Joel
(Related: Fun, Saints)
"Sainthood is acceptable only in saints."
- Pamela Hansford Johnson
(Related: Saints)
"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: God, Nothing, Saints)
"There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians."
- Tim LaHaye
(Related: Beginning, Saints)
"But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth."
- Tim LaHaye
(Related: Earth, Saints, Will)
"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: History, People, Saints)
"We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic."
- C. Kilmer Myers
(Related: Men, Children, Fantasy, Gold, Magic, Past, Saints, World)
"You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints."
- Edward James Olmos
(Related: Saints)
"Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."
- George Orwell
(Related: People, Saints, Temptation, Want)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
- George Orwell
(Related: Saints)
"I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way."
- Anne Rice
(Related: Work, Christianity, Angels, Saints)
"We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough."
- Anne Rice
(Related: Christ, Saints)
"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
(Related: Travel, People, Saints)
"Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist."
- George Saintsbury
(Related: Infinite, Possibilities, Present)
"But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do."
- George Saintsbury
(Related: Fiction, Gold, Style)
"It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times."
- George Saintsbury
(Related: History)
"The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."
- George Saintsbury
(Related: Romance)
"The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in."
- George Saintsbury
(Related: Life, Work, Artist, Giving, Language, Manners, State)
"To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much."
- George Saintsbury
(Related: Romance, Care, Debate, Mind, Will)
"But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy."
- George Saintsbury
(Related: Melancholy)
"One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name."
- George Saintsbury
(Related: History, Absence, Facts, Fiction, Literary, Literature, Name, Prose)
"The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth."
- George Saintsbury
(Related: Growth, Circumstances, Exercise, Influence, Prose)
"But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time."
- George Saintsbury
(Related: Time, Genius, English, Man)
"Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first."
- George Saintsbury
(Related: Class, First, Names, Production, Rank)
"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love."
- Walter Scott
(Related: Love, Men, Court, Heaven, Rules, Saints)
"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Moderation, Poets, Saints)
"No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints."
- Charles Simeon
(Related: Man, Measure, Saints, Scripture)
"I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it."
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
(Related: Church, Faults, Heaven, Hell, Saints, Will)
"It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind."
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
(Related: God, Day, Meditation, Mind, Saints, Visions)
"Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana."
- Paul Tagliabue
(Related: Focus, Saints, Trying)
"We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team."
- Paul Tagliabue
(Related: Effort, Saints)
"I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are."
- Donnie Wahlberg
(Related: Saints)
"Saints need sinners."
- Alan Watts
(Related: Saints)