Saint Quotes - Page 37

• When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Regret, Confused

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• The only team that believed in me was the Saints, and I feel like I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I want to give them what they saw in me-a guy who could lead this team to a championship.

  Drew Brees

  Football, Gratitude, Team

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• Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

  Wallace Stevens

  Civilization, Crumbs, Complaints

  Wallace Stevens (1964). “the Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”

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• Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Friendship, Wall, Angel

  Virginia C. Andrews (1980). “Petals on the wind”, Pocket

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• It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Odd, Should

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• Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Self, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding.

  Howard Gardner

  Educational, Teaching, Knowing

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• The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."

  William Hazlitt

  Princess, Fire, Venus

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• This earth is not our home. We are away at school, trying to master the lessons of "the great plan of happiness" so we can return home and know what it means to be there. Over and over the Lord tells us why the plan is worth our sacrifice - and His. Eve called it "the joy of our redemption." Jacob called it "that happiness which is prepared for the saints." Of necessity, the plan is full of thorns and tears - His and ours. But because He and we are so totally in this together, our being "at one" with Him in overcoming all opposition will itself bring us "incomprehensible joy."

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Home, School, Mean

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• There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit of God, which is the spirit of revelation to every man and woman. It will reveal to them, even in the simplest of matters, what they shall do, by making suggestions to them. We should try to learn the nature of this spirit, that we may understand its suggestions, and then we will always be able to do right. This is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Men, Trying, May

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

  George Monbiot

  People, Climate, Needs

  "This crisis demands a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2007.

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• All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wisdom, Past, Sinner

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• A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Squares, Law

  Letter from a Birmingham Jail, www.africa.upenn.edu. April 16, 1963.

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• Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love!

  Josemaria Escriva

  Heart, Long, Fool

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• On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

  Edith Stein

  Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

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• O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

  Saint Augustine

  Masters, Chaste, Catholicism

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• The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.

  John Vianney

  Thinking, Hatred, Forgiving

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• A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.333, Discovery House

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• There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

  Leon Bloy

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

  "Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church". Book by Peter Kreeft, 2001.

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• If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Inspiration, Light

  Mother Teresa (2016). “A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve”, p.106, Image

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• A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is higher than anyone else in the world. A saint is the real mountain climber. A saint is also lower than anyone else in the world. As with water, he flows to the lowest places - like Calcutta.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Husband, Real

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• Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

  Philip Neri

  Sweet, Angel, Thinking

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.48, St Athanasius Press

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• As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Tolerance, Sin, Rough

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.300

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• I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.

  Charles Barkley

  Thank God, Causes, Looks

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• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

  Lana Turner

  Girl, Men, Maids

  "Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles". Book by Jon Lewis, April 19, 2017.

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