Quotes about Saint
A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.
— William Barclay
God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless "saint." Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth; the man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Both heaven and earth rejoice when a saint escapes the earthly body: Heaven because a soul has triumphed over the devil. And earth because a saint is a prickly person to live with.
— Margaret Frazer
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.
— William Law
There is no danger of the individual saint being overlooked amidst the multitude of supplicants who daily and hourly present their various petitions, for an infinite Mind is as capable of paying the same attention to millions as if only one individual were seeking its attention.
— AW Pink
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
— Ambrose of Milan
The most glorious city of God.
— St. Augustine
Love is he, radiant with great splendor,And speaks to us of Thee, O Most High.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
The spring that brims and ripples oh I know in dark of night.
— John of the Cross
'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
— Charles Spurgeon
The governor had made up his mind to one thing: Joan was either a witch or a saint, and he meant to find out which it was.
— Mark Twain
How great therefore may the resemblance be, as to all outward expressions and appearances, between a hypocrite and a true saint!
— Jonathan Edwards