Saint Quotes

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

No man can become a saint in his sleep.

I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.

I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

I'm hardly a saint.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.