(487 quotes found)
“They are not all saints who use holy water”
Proverb
“Find the Lord, find the saints of the times, but also find the not canonized, simple persons who are really in the heart of the Church.”
Joseph Ratzinger
“I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man”
Charlton Heston
“Christianity didn't make us saints overnight. We struggle as everyone struggles in the world. The challenge is to live out the true Christian life in historical context.”
Wati Aier
“I belong to the faubourg Saint-Patrice called Ireland for short”
James Joyce
“She was a patron saint of the peripheral.”
Jane Howard
“Have Mercy upon me, O Lord, Sustainer of the world. The dust of the feet of the Saints is all the treasure I need. In the Company of the True Guru, one's investment remains intact. Nanak is awake to the Love of the Supreme Lord.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.”
William Osler
“Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.”
Mohandas Gandhi
“Nay, said she, "the saints in Heaven cannot help me now until they take me to my rest. There is no place for me in the world beyond, and all my friends were slain on the day I was taken. Leave me, brave men, and let me care for myself. Already it lightens in the east, and black will be your fate if you are taken. Go, and may the blessing of one who was once a holy nun go with you and guard you from danger."”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.