Quotes of: Saint Keyword

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

When Christ and His Saints Slept

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

Paul Tagliabue

I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

Poppy Z. Brite

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Georges Bataille

The idea of Christian perfection, which began in the ancient monasteries and spread to the world as an ideal, is one of the most appealing, demanding and ultimately hopeless notions of the spiritual life. By definition, only God is perfect—that is,...

Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi

It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.

The Complete Works of Saint Cyprian of Carthage

Keep your prayer simple. Whatever confuses or complicates prayer is probably best forgotten.

Challenge: A Daily Meditation Program Based on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

The Heretic's Apprentice

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO: A Remarkable Story about Living Your Heart's Desires

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.

Not All of Us Are Saints: A Doctor's Journey with the Poor

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of ...

Athanasius

Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Donald Wuerl

Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.

Wavy Gravy

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

Ciaran Hinds

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

Ciaran Hinds

I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who left and actually did something with her life. Then died.

Ally Spina

Jangan mencari yang besar-besar, cukup mengerjakan yang kecil-kecil dengan cinta yang besar. Makin kecil yang kita hadapi harus makin besar cinta yang kita berikan

Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta