Top 1200 Catholic Saint Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus on heaven or hell. Purgatory is for the expiation of sin, the fact that you are there, and not in hell, means you'll eventually work your way to heaven. The experience of this play, 'Small oak tree', and its psychological architecture, relies on its knowledge of that. Many black people believe that this life, within itself, is a way to work out whatever obligations we have, in order to get to a better place.

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Jack Paar was my first TV patron saint.

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do, and the law says you can impose capital punishment, so you impose it. You can [also] be a Catholic who says we can't kill, we can't kill babies and we can't kill adults. If you let a decision be driven by your personal views, then you are not doing what a judge needs to do, which is enforce the laws of the society that you are in. But you can control your own behavior, and that is the choice that the church and God gives us - what kind of people are we going to be.

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

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

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

I'm a Catholic.

I once stumped Jimmy Buffett by calling him a saint.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

Jailbait," he declared, leaping up. "You're a saint. A goddess, even.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics, and very probably at some time, Jews. I have consistently tried while President to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who happens to be Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people.

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

A person's destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.

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

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!

I'm delighted to extend my contract and commitment to Paris Saint-Germain.

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other.

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

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

If you correspond to the designs of God, He will make a saint of you.

Yves Saint Laurent mascara is the best I've ever tried.

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

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

Yves Saint Laurent hated fashion. He loved style.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.

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

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the Middle Ages that preceded it, informed and was meant to inform every domain of life. Violence involving religion and touching other areas of life took many forms: from the Protestant destruction of Catholic religious art and objects in iconoclasm, to Catholic executions of Protestants who refused to renounce their views, to major destructive conflicts such as the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years' War.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

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

There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.