Saint Quotes

“There's nothing holy about suffering. The stories of the martyrs illustrate their faith because in spite of what they endured they did not suffer. A saint always dies smiling.”
― Julia Gfrörer, Laid Waste

“The path to God has become binary: you find God as a monastic or clergy, or you find God as a layperson. There is precious little in between. Oblation comes close but is still only one thread when there used to be an entire tapestry.”
― Sierra Simone, Saint

“And I love being a sinner too much to ever be a saint.'

'No one would nominate you for sainthood.'

'And be glad of that. Saints don't typically kill to protect their investments.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“I find that fixed and unambiguous thinking is the mother of many sins. We forget that Christ was heterodox and radical. He was not safe, in his ideas or his passions or his presence, and he demanded everything of his followers, not the least their certainty that they knew all the shapes of right and wrong in their world. And so when I’m searching for a way forward, naively hunting for certainty, I’ve found that God judges me back to where God wants me. Which is in the middle of questions that feel unanswerable. I believe it is there - in the fire and friction of things I’ve been told don’t belong together, of things that I’ve been taught can’t be done - that the true answers lie.”
― Sierra Simone, Saint

“Once upon a time there were as many ways to be holy as there were people, and the space between secular and monastic, between laity and clergy, was filled with all sorts of strange books and crannies. You could have visions, dream dreams, you could be monastic from the four walls of your own house or you could wander the country barefoot and begging. But we’ve lost much of that over the centuries.”
― Sierra Simone, Saint

“It seemed to me that the most saintly and amazingly rivetingly holy people I ever met were all liable to laughter and had egos so tiny you couldn't find them with the most powerful microscopes.”
― Brian Doyle

“In politics, there is no saint.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“This rigid dichotomy of holy and profane, of vowed and unvowed…it sterilizes us. Not everyone fits into those boxes to begin with, almost no one fits entirely into them, and then there are those of us who experience God so differently from what is sanctioned and prescribed that even the mere idea of boxes is…limiting.”
― Sierra Simone

“I asked why all us kids had saints’ names, my father had said, “Because life throws so much at us. We want you to remember to be kind, patient, and tolerant. To have empathy for other people, care about them. And to have that extra help, your own saint backing you.”

“But we don’t always go to church,” I’d pointed out.

“Caring about people doesn’t just take place there. It’s how you act out in the world, when no one is looking, where it really counts.”
― Luanne Rice, Pretend She's Here

“Let nothing disturb the silence of this time with you, my Lord.”
― Teresa de Avila

“Let nothing disturb the silence of this moment with You, my Lord.”
― Teresa de Avila

“The mind once-fragmented, when it contemplated one closer resembling 'God', it thought essentially in terms of power; but only through the power of the true God could it be regenerated and made more accurate, and therefore prioritizing holiness. For without delusion or illusion, true holiness is of rarer, greater value than power.”
― Criss Jami

“... she moved through a cloud of light as if it were dust. Her footsteps kicked up motes of brilliance. The light roiled around her feet and trailed behind her, refusing to settle. She carried a severed hand in her right hand. Her left wrist ended in a stump, not bloody, simply there. The motes of light seemed to gather near it, briefly forming fingers, then falling back to the ground again.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Never measure a saint from yesterday based on the standards of today. Measure them against the norm of their own time. Were they able to reject the inhuman elements of their time - that is the question.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“The teacher spoke: 'There could of course be some rational explanation. But why shouldn't a karamah operate by rational means? After all, miracles aren't the same as magic.'

I asked if he thought al-Shadhili would perform a karamah for a non-Muslim.

'If your intention in visiting him is good, why not?' said the teacher.”
― Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

“St Maximus the Confessor says that the saints have attained to a pure simplicity, because they have overcome in themselves all duality and pretence. They have passed beyond the struggle between soul and body, between good intentions and works performed, between deceitful appearances and hidden thoughts, between what they pretend to be and what they actually are. They have become simple because they have given themselves entirely to God.”
― Dumitru Stăniloae, Prayer and Holiness: The Icon of Man Renewed in God

“This is the ‘rest’, the stability, the Sabbath into which the saints have entered (Heb. 3: 18–4: 11), those who have left the Egypt of the passions. It is not the Sabbath of an insensible Nirvana; for by resting in the eternity of unshakeable love, the love of God for men, the saint has power to draw others towards eternity and help them to overcome their suffering with courage, and not to give way to despair. Thus he is the forerunner and sustainer of humankind on the road which leads to the perfect fulfilment of the Last Day.”
― Dumitru Stăniloae, Prayer and Holiness: The Icon of Man Renewed in God

“En dansant Autour de la Terre
Je saute sans peur sur la Mer,
Et Je Vous Salut, Saint Pierre,
Priez pour nous, vierge Marie!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Beaucoup de vies à aimer… et l'éternité à vivre

“There are a lot of saints
since the devil became a sinner.”
― Laura Chouette

“There will be a lot of saints
once the devil becomes a sinner.”
― Laura Chouette

“There will be lots of saints
once the devil becomes a sinner.”
― Laura Chouette

“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.”
― Felix Adler

“How do I recognize a real saint? Whom I shall see within me whether it is in dreams or trances or meditations, he will be the saint to me. Because God is the only saint in this world. He is within our bodies. When He will manifest within ourselves in the form of a person, He will be the saint to me.”
― Sri Jibamkrishna or Diamond

“Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it.”
― Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

“There was a man so wise,
He jumped into
A sandy place
And burnt out both his eyes!
And when he knew his eyes were gone,
He offered no complaint.
He summoned up a vision
And made himself a saint.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty”
― Jon Fosse, A Shining

“Well fed devils behave better than famished saints.”
― DL Smith, The Gentleman's Guide to Romancing Your Woman or Significant Other: 11 Inspired Dates Sure to Impress that Won't Break the Bank

“Sapiens is the saintly answer
to the clarion call of life,
True sapiens is saintly sapiens,
all else is desecration of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“They were her recognition and her offering—a bit of matter, coated in glitter, and placed before a saint.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“It’s my fault. I’m definitely one of those parents who takes a hundred percent responsibility for the monster I created.”
― Shantel Tessier, Carnage