Saint Quotes

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.