Quotes about Saints
If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.
- Peter Kreeft
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.
- Brigham Young
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
- Teresa of Avila
God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
- Oswald Chambers
The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.
- Oswald Chambers
God, deliver me from sullen saints.
- Teresa of Avila
Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.
- Charles Spurgeon
The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
- Oswald Chambers
Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.
- Oswald Chambers
Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
- Robert Frost