Quotes about Saints

Sanctity means separation from the spirit of the world, with immersion in the activity of the world. Saints would be in the world, not of it; they would have no public relation boosters to publicize them; they would never ask for money; perhaps the one venture which would stand out most in their lives would be poverty of spirit.

I have never met an old saint who regretted having spent too much time in prayer, but I have met many who regretted having spent too little!

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.

And yet, notwithstanding all these continual persecutions and horrible punishments, the Church daily increased, deeply rooted in the doctrine of the apostles and of men apostolical, and watered plentously with the blood of saints.

Heaven would at once cease to be heaven if the ears of the saints still heard the blasphemous and filthy language of the reprobate.

O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

When the Lord is pleased to withdraw, the soul is left in great loneliness; yet all the possible efforts that it might make to regain His companionship are of little avail, for the Lord gives this when He wills and it cannot be acquired. Sometimes again, companionship comes from a saint which is also a great help to us.

dare avouch46 to all that know God, that the saints know not the length and largeness of the sweet earnest,47 and of the sweet green sheaves before the harvest, that might be had on this side of the water, if we should take more pains: and that we all go to heaven with less earnest and lighter purses of the hoped for sum than otherwise we might do, if we took more pains to win further in upon Christ in this pilgrimage of our absence from Him.

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.

Jude 1:3 commands us to "contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints" (emphasis added). Quite frankly, there are certain things that we need to just adhere to and fight for with deep passion and conviction—the national border issues, as we discussed in chapter 4.

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old when all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones forget not.