Saint Quotes - Page 27

• Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.

  Brigham Young

  Miracle, Fear Of Love, Power Of God

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”

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• Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  People, Community, Stories

  Stanley Hauerwas, John Swinton (2004). “Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology”, p.74, Routledge

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• It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and “the righteous shall hardly escape.” …So that is an unhallowed principle to say that such and such have transgressed because they have been preyed upon by disease or death, for all flesh is subject to death; and the Savior has said, “judge not, lest ye be judged.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Ideas, Judging, Suffering

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• For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Light, Darkness

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People

  "May Peace Be with You, Kurt Vonnegut" by Harvey Wasserman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2007.

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• Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in His essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously true, He manifested the glory of God to us, but He added nought to God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Jesus, Essentials, Earth

  "The Wisdom of Arthur W. Pink".

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• How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mother, Believe, Love You

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• I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Play, Novelists

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• When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

  Joseph Heller

  Angel, People, Heaven

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Martyr, Ifs

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.243, Macmillan

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• No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Hate, Want, Brideshead Revisited

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• But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heroism, Fellowship

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• "Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!"
  
  "Even saints have to start somewhere," Carl said softly. "And it's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image."

  Diane Duane

  Children, Father, Generations

  "High Wizardry". Book by Diane Duane, 1990.

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• This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness, The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant. There's no getting up it by the words you know. No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe. We have only come to look. You are too new To want the world in a glass hat.

  Sylvia Plath

  Shoes, Elephants, White

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.156, Faber & Faber

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• I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Running, Dad

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.87, Macmillan

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• Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can ensure that I will catch it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wise, Kings, Men

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

  Hermann Hesse

  Two, Doe, Body

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Girl, Silly, Sleep

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.101, Macmillan

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• I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

  Charlie Chaplin

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.

  Andrea Camilleri

  Country, Mistake, Sleep

  Andrea Camilleri (2009). “August Heat”, p.11, Penguin

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• I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby

  D. J. MacHale

  Mean, Conflict, Celebrate

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• Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey?" - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR

  D. J. MacHale

  Talking, Suits, Laundry

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• I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

  D. J. MacHale

  Girlfriend, Nice, Reality

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• Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

  D. J. MacHale

  Reality, Looks, Littles

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• Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Angel, Years, Weather

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Scorpia”, p.207, Penguin

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