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We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace.
And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.
Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately
Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.
The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.
That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
I knew him, but never felt that I got really close to Saint Laurent. But who really did? Betty Catroux, maybe.
Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.
I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.
Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.
To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.
If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.
The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
My trainer, Marty Jones, was trained by Billy Robinson, so was Johnny Saint and a lot of great British wrestlers.
I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!
I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.
To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts
A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.
Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.
Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The patron saint of outlining - the bespectacled siren who sings to me from his spotless rock - is P. G. Wodehouse.
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.