There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.
Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!
Who teaches the soul if not God?
The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.
He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the result of many experiences. But a single work of art, or even a series of works, more often than not cannot translate these synthetic concepts adequately. Yves Saint Laurent once said that he suffered greatly when creating. He is not alone in that. Most artists do the same and say as much.
Basically, this guy was a saint, so we drink.
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.
A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.
Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.
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.