In small churches, small saints are big.
But in the end they were not called saints because of the way they died, or because of their visions or wondrous deeds, but because of their extraordinary capacity for love and goodness, which reminded others of the love of God.
The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.
She was a patron saint of the peripheral.
The saint is suspicious of too many sacrifices.
Dancing at the carnival, baptizing on All Saints Day.
You recognize the saint by his miracle.
You cannot worship an unknown saint.
You only know saints by their miracles.
Before passing through the gates of a town I've never visited, I take a minute to salute its saints - the dead and the living, the known and the hidden. Never in my life have I arrived at a new place without getting the blessing of its saints first. ...
As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but open to transcendence and ultimately to God. This concept of the person, he believed, was denied as much by ...
Old saints don't get incense anymore.
Truth is mighty and will prevail.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and ...
No saint was ever popular in his own parish.
Follow the saint no further than his doorstep.
Even the tiniest little chapel has its saint.
Why hide from God what the saints already know?
A lot of people become saints because of their stomach.
When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.
