Quotes by Saint I am a count, not a saint. Alexandre Dumas saint Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold. Alice Cary saint gold thinking The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint. Alistair Cooke saint games golf I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do. Allen Ginsberg saint real want He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things. Alphonsus Liguori trust-in-god saint lost Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us. Alphonsus Liguori saint lost giving If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint. Alphonsus Liguori saint suffering hands He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy. Alphonsus Liguori rich saint desire "Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity. Alphonsus Liguori how-to-love saint jesus If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need. Alphonsus Liguori saint praying needs It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous. Alphonsus Liguori excess saint soul The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone. Alphonsus Liguori adversity saint beautiful What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it. Alphonsus Liguori cost saint doe All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer. Alphonsus Liguori saint soul prayer Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh. Alphonsus Liguori saint attachment flesh Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned. Alphonsus Liguori saint sin grace You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory. Alphonsus Rodriguez saint care firsts Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce edited saints-and-sinners saint No one heals himself by wounding another. Ambrose saint hurt healing The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism. Ambrose baptism saint water «1234567891011»