Saints Quotes

The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. (Oscar Wilde)
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. View quote
Walter Scott
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. View quote
Emil Cioran
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun. View quote
Billy Joel
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. View quote
Anne Sexton
The will is free Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful The seeds of godlike power are in us still Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. View quote
Will Durant
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. View quote
Annie Besant
It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind. View quote
Joseph Smith
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. View quote
Isaac Watts
That saints will aid if men will call For the blue sky bends over all. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence. View quote
Susan Beth Pfeffer
No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints. View quote
William James
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue. View quote
Graham Greene
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we can love them...the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity. View quote
Blaise Pascal
I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us. View quote
Dorothy Day
Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians. View quote
António de Oliveira Salazar
There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world. (Fernando Pessoa)
A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something. View quote
Gertrude Stein
A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people. View quote
Emil Cioran
Saints live in flames; wise men, next to them. View quote
Emil Cioran
They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun... View quote
Billy Joel