Saint Quotes

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.

~ Habeeb Akande

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

~ Léon Bloy

Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so dull, and like the White Queen one had to run so fast to stay where one was, let alone progress; and there were few men who dared to say they had found God. It was easy to be a clever sinner, for the race to an earthly visible goal was short to run, so impossibly hard to be a wise saint, with the goal set at so vast a distance from this world and clouded with such uncertainty.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

You are a cool cemetery.You have the sinner’s graveYou have the saint’s earthcollidingYou have all the bedsnarrow as a knife;as if a rally of tombstones to defend death.But you can’t really postponethe inauguration of my burial,can you?From the poem - Few Words to Cemetery

~ Munia Khan

There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love.

~ Jessica Fortunato

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

~ Aphra Behn

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

~ Thomas Aquinas

The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.

~ Manu Joseph

Character isn't all about becoming a saint or perfect. No one is perfect! There are areas we all are working on to improve and fine tune..

~ Assegid Habtewold

The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It's easy to be a saint when all you've known is the good.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment.

~ Criss Jami

The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.

~ Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

I’m nothing but a thought in the mind of God,I’m Satan’s slave; I open my eyes and flee, I’m mankind, I worship, and I kill,All in the name of Love, hateI’m the slaughtered lamb, I’m luzbel I’m the one paying for your sins,I’m your son; I am your mom and dad,I’m the one, who worships God, I’m a killer and a saint,I’m just a thought in the mind of God.I laugh and I suffer, I get killed, and I kill others,I’m nothing but a thought in the mind of GodI’m compassion and rage, I love, I cheat, and I lie, I tell the truth, I’m dead, I’m alive, I’m in hell, the place people called paradise,I am just a thought in the mind of God

~ Quetzal

Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence, perhaps even contempt. But they're mistaken, and that makes them furious. They commit an awful crime. This is doubtless the reason why most saints end up as martyrs.

~ Philippe Claudel

...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...

~ John Geddes

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

~ Idries Shah

You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

~ Jessica Fortunato

To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.

~ W. Ian Thomas

What matters is the sinner becomes a saint through the grace of salvation in Christ Jesus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.

~ Mccall Hoyle

He lived like a devil and died like a saint

~ Haidji

No one showed any signs of recognizing me. I didn't know what I'd do if they did, other than lie like a devil and pray like a saint.

~ Rodney Jones

We designate the spirit of the well as 'she' because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not invariably. She appears in many guises - ghost, witch, saint, mermaid, fairy, and sometimes in animal form, often as a sacred fish - and her presence permeates well lore, and indeed water lore generally.

~ Colin Bord

For as long as I could remember, other people had either overshadowed me or left me out in the open, alone. But Mac, as Layla had said all those weeks ago, was always somewhere nearby. He left me enough space to stand alone, but stood at the ready for the moment that I didn’t want to. It was the perfect medium, I was learning. Like he was my saint, the one I’d been waiting for.

~ Sarah Dessen