Browsing Topic Best Saint Quotes

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Everyone may not be good, but there’s always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won’t make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.

I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.

Man’s value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

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

Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd’s Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship…something else.

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

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

It is loving the Cross that one finds one heart, for Divine Love cannot live without suffering.

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God’s grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man ‘yet to come’. Confucius spoke of ‘the Saint’; the Sibyls, of a ‘Universal King’; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the ‘primal eldest curse’. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first He was expected; even the Gentiles had a longing for a deliverer, or redeemer. This fact alone distinguishes Him from all other religious leaders.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

So long as there are poor, – I am poor, – So long as there are prisons, – I am a prisoner, – So long as there are sick, – I am weak, – So long as there is ignorance, – I must learn the truth, – So long as there is hate, – I must love, – So long as there is hunger, – I am famished. – Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.

I don’t believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.