Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and yet I have heard now and then (I am very glad to say that only a low such instances have come under my notice) a brother or a sister say, 'I am a Latter-day Saint, but I do not believe in polygamy. ' Oh, what an absurd expression! What an absurd idea! A person might as well say, 'I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, but I do not believe in him. '
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.
While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints. While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.
We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him. . . The saints are like this. They have died before death.
The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone.
In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one takes the place to which one is duly called, which place one neither seeks nor declines.
Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.
If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.