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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't. — George Jones

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. — Oscar Wilde

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. — Saint Augustine

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners — Robert Farrar Capon

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. — Blaise Pascal

Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited. — Ambrose Bierce

If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block. — Anton Szandor LaVey

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things. — Nissim Ezekiel

A saint is a sinner who never gave up. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell! — Charles Spurgeon

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. — Brennan Manning

A devil takes one and makes two, a saint takes two and makes one. — Moroccan Proverbs

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. — Abigail Van Buren

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. — L. L. Nash

Short Saint Saints Quotes

  • To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. — Leo Tolstoy
  • Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company. — Mark Twain
  • I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places. — Mark Twain
  • Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. — Saadi Shirazi
  • Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. — Mark Twain
  • I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me! — Kendrick Lamar
  • It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana
  • Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. — Proverbs
  • New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. — Mark Twain
  • Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Saint Saints Image Quotes

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak. - Anthony of Padua quote

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak. — Anthony of Padua

Love God, serve God; everything is in that. - Clare of Assisi quote

Love God, serve God; everything is in that. — Clare of Assisi

Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them - John Bosco quote

Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them — John Bosco

Saint saints quote I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. - Rose of Lima quote

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. — Rose of Lima

Enjoy yourself as much as you like - if only you keep from sin. - John Bosco quote

Enjoy yourself as much as you like - if only you keep from sin. — John Bosco

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. - Saint Dominic quote

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. — Saint Dominic

Saint saints quote Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.
Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.
For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more. - Maximilian Kolbe quote

For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more. — Maximilian Kolbe

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt. - Ambrose quote

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt. — Ambrose

Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved. - Robert Bellarmine quote

Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved. — Robert Bellarmine

Saint saints quote Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future
The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels. - Bridget of Sweden quote

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels. — Bridget of Sweden

Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world. - Pope Pius IX quote

Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world. — Pope Pius IX

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail. - Pope Gregory I quote

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail. — Pope Gregory I

Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. - Moses quote

Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. — Moses

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue. - Angela Merici quote

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue. — Angela Merici

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. - Brennan Manning quote

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. — Brennan Manning

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven. - Pope Pius X quote

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven. — Pope Pius X

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. - Anne Sexton quote

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. — Anne Sexton

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm. - Mary Euphrasia Pelletier quote

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome. - Anthony Mary Claret quote

I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome. — Anthony Mary Claret

Sinner And Saint Quotes

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. — Oscar Wilde

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance. — Bridget of Sweden

It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity. — Josemaria Escriva

Understand two thoughts, and fear them. One says, "You are a saint," the other, "You won't be saved." Both of these thoughts are from the enemy, and there is no truth in them. But think this way: I am a great sinner, but the Lord is merciful. He loves people very much, and He will forgive my sins. — Silouan the Athonite

The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress. — Francis Frangipane

I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah. — Swami Vivekananda

Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. — Athanasius of Alexandria

...the more you talk of it, the less you understand. — Lao Tzu

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." — Archibald Alexander

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More Saint Saints Quotes

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. — Saint Francis de Sales

Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me. — Clare of Assisi

The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers. — Maximilian Kolbe

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry. — Saint Francis de Sales

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. — St. Catherine of Siena

The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God. — Anthony of Padua

Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God. — David Jeremiah

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes. — Smith Wigglesworth

The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can — Dominic Savio

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials. — Teresa of Avila

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity. — Angela Merici

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone. — Frances Xavier Cabrini

It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path. — Katharine Drexel

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God. — Vincent de Paul

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me! — Elizabeth of Hungary

If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent. — John of the Cross

We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ. — John of the Cross

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