Saint Quotes - Page 18

• Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Men, Welfare

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• Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States, or which are detrimental to the progress of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be condemned, whether advocated by Republicans or Democrats.

  David O. McKay

  Jesus, Teaching, Progress

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• The people are the source of governmental power. Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to the people, and the people consented to a constitution that delegated certain powers to the government... The sovereign power is in the people.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Religious, Government, People

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• This is the number one responsibility of the Latter-day Saints - to get in the struggle to preserve freedom. Everywhere that Communism succeeds, missionary work, temple work, everything the Church does, dies. Your number one responsibility is to preserve freedom.

  David O. McKay

  Struggle, Responsibility, Numbers

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• God saved us to make us holy, not happy. Some experiences may not contribute to our happiness, but all can be made to contribute to our holiness. Vance Havner
  The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Holiness, May

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• Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

  Thomas Brooks

  Rebel, May, Reign

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.404

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• I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's comment that "saints always have a past and sinners always have a future," so no investment should be ruled out simply on the basis of past history. We focus on liquidation analysis and liquidation analysis alone.

  Peter Cundill

  Past, Focus, Mind

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• 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.

  Grace, Deny, Acknowledge

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• 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

  Creation Of The Universe, Sinner, Creation

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• The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

  Timothy Keller

  Museums, Broken, Church

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• Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

  John Smith

  Might, Sin, Gluttony

  John Smith (2007). “The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography”, National Geographic Books

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• We are the nation's watchmen, no other people collectively love the Constitution and honor it and hold it as a divinely inspired document as do the Latter-day Saints.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  People, Honor, Constitution

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• The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or ravishing-then the menagerie of saints and dragons must be faithfully recalled.

  Russell Sherman

  Dragons, Profound, Sound

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• Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even the poets - so purely and reverently and admirably expressed that I can't help believing the author's hearts were moved by some divine power. And perhaps the spirit of Christ is more widespread than we understand, and the company of the saints includes many not on our calendar.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Running, Believe, Writing

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “The Colloquies of Erasmus”, Chicago, 1965- .

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• I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

  Albert Camus

  Fellowship, Defeated, Feels

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied that meditation may be ousted, and organizations are increased that prayer may have no chance. Souls may be lost in good works, as surely as in evil ways. The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Organization, Evil

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• I want to live as long as I can do good; but not an hour longer than I can live in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, with my Father in heaven, my Savior, and with the faithful Latter-day Saints. To live any longer than this would be torment and misery to me. When my work is done I am ready to go; but I want to do what is required of me.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Father, Long, Heaven

  Wilford Woodruff (2015). “Leaves from my Journal”, p.93, Noodle-Doo Studios

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• We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.

  John Vianney

  Blessed, Angel, May

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• Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

  John Vianney

  Angel, Trying, Please

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• The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven.

  Anthony of Padua

  Wings, Bird, Heaven

  St Anthony of Padua “St Anthony of Padua - The Sermons of St Anthony”, Free Catholic Books

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• A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

  William Barclay

  Believe, Believe In God, Easier

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• Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

  Patrick Roy

  Hockey, Montreal, Sinner

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• 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

  Reality, Self, Lambs

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Philosopher, Poor

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2008, Manonmani Publishers

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• There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Boys, Men, Games

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.434, Manonmani Publishers

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