Saint Quotes - Page 32

• ..nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.

  Sylvia Day

  Past, God Knows, Feels

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.406, Penguin

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• The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

  Victor Hugo

  Blessed, Monsters, Guarded

  Victor Hugo (1849). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.142

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• There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

  Glen Cook

  Lying, Self, Evil

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.79, Macmillan

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• In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
  In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
  In halls, in gay attire is seen;
  In hamlets, dances on the green.
  Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
  And men below, and saints above;
  For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Life, Peace

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 3, st. 2 (1805)

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• Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us pray with fervour, let us live in holiness, let us preach constantly, and preach with fire, and let us so live, that we may impress our age, and leave our footprints on the sands of time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Men, Fire

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.511

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• The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Distance, Home

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.138, Barbour Publishing

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• Except the Christ be born again tonight
  In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
  The world will never see his kingdom bright.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Christmas, Dream, Son

  Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

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• If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.

  Janadas Devan

  Religious, Science, Order

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• As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Self, Long

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• Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Sanctity, Admire

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• What you are looking for is what is looking.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Long, Community

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.168, Penguin

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• There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, World, Littles

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1972). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• Humility is an attribute of godliness possessed by true Saints. It is easy to understand why a proud man fails. He is content to rely upon himself only. This is evident in those who seek social position or who push others aside to gain position in fields of business, government, education, sports, or other endeavors. Our genuine concern should be for the success of others. The proud man shuts himself off from God, and when he does he no longer lives in the light.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Sports, Humility, Men

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Culture, May, Experts

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• The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sea, Voice, Special

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• If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dirty, Luxury, People

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• Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Pain, Adversity, Doors

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• We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Compassion, Forgiving

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

  Albert Camus

  Atheist, Atheism, Doe

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• Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, New York, Hero

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• If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Buddhist, Block, Two

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• O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, War, Able

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [101]

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• Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Bars, Prison

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• One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Order, Soul

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