Saints Quotes

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

Some of the defendants say that dictatorship can be good if there is a good dictator. But I say that a man cannot stay good if he becomes a dictator. Authoritarianism is a system that destroys man's morality. If you take a saint and give him power, he will change into a Hitler or a devil.

Great deeds and utterances are now so diluted with printer’s ink that we can no longer find a sage or saint.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

There is no such thing as a saint without a past or a sinner without a future.

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.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Saints need sinners.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

Suffering saints are living seed.

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.

I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.

For centuries, Tamil Nadu is a holy land of many religious scholars and saints who preached good things.

While the world may be dramatizing, the Scientologists are out there, making the “Saints of yesteryear”, look like little children

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

We may live like saints, but when it comes to our fantasy life, everybody's got a little larceny in their soul.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.