(487 quotes found)
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.”
Georges Bataille
“We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?”
Samuel Beckett
“The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914”
Charles Taze Russell
“The Lord has perfectly arranged this wedding, the Saints have come together as a wedding party.”
Guru Nanak
“Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]”
Ava Gardner
“That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell”
St. Thomas Aquinas
“For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most”
Annie Besant
“Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.”
Dorothy Day
“All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel”
Mark Twain