Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.
What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.
Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.
You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.
Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.
What do you possess if you possess not God?
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
If you correspond to the designs of God, He will make a saint of you.
There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.
And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.
You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.