Quotes about Saints

Thus, there is a hidden grandeur in the most ordinary things. St. Josemaria saw this, and he had little patience for those would-be saints with romantic inclinations who saw ordinary life as merely an obstacle to true greatness.

Beyond this, to speak to the river and ask it why it runs, or to the sunshine and inquire of its cheer, or to command the raging storm be silent, this is a delight that saints and angels know which man, exiled from Eden, has lost. We are dumb and deaf in a world given to our dominion.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

The sins of the saints are pardonable, not because of their nature as saints, but because they obtain pardon from God's mercy.

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383).

Great saints are both courageous and creative; they are "yes, and" or non-dual thinkers who never get trapped in the small world of "either-or" except in the ways of love and courage, where they are indeed all or nothing.