Quotes and Sayings About Saint
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
-- A. N. Wilson -
And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
-- Abraham Cowley -
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
-- Adam Savage -
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God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
-- Alan RedpathSource : Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.6, Baker Books
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
-- Alber Elbaz -
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
-- Aldous Huxley -
As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
-- Alexander McQueen -
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
-- Alexander Pope -
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
-- Alexander Pope -
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
-- Alexander Pope -
Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.
-- Alice CarySource : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.164
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.
-- Alistair Cooke -
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To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
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If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
"Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
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Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.
-- Alphonsus Rodriguez -
What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.
-- Ambrose -
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I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.
-- Andrew LincolnSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
