241 Quotes About Saint

Who the hell is the Vatican to declare who is saint and who is not - sacrifice makes a saint, not allegiance to the Vatican. A saint is determined by action and action alone - saintliness is not the possession of any barbaric institution to be endowed on people - saintliness is the plain ordinary drive within each human to become less animal and more human.

But in love I gave all: my capabilities, my efforts, my feelings, my deepest emotions. Like a saint, I gave everything I had without ever counting the cost.

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.

I'm not a saint! Thanks God!

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

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

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

Lots of people don't know you are alive, until you drop dead, then after you are gone, they can't wait to find out all about you.

He who is inclined to lust is merciful and tender-hearted; those who are inclined to purity are not so' (Saint John Climacus). It took a saint, neither more nor less, to denounce so distinctly and so vigorously not the lies but the very essence of Christian morality, and indeed of all morality.