God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest. " Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.
Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.
Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.
There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.
Saint Christopher, who said, Where can I get a Frank Sinatra medal? Never got a dinner!
Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.
The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.
Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
My ultimate goal is to become a saint.
Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.
A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.
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.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
You won't become a saint by studying your Bible; you'll become a saint by living it.
