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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices ... sing also with your conduct. — Saint Augustine

You are beautiful, but you are empty — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud. — Saint Augustine

In my opinion, no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some mainly qualitites. — C.M. Owens

Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. — Saint Augustine

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church. — Saint Augustine

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's. — Saint Augustine

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied. — Saint Augustine

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. — Saint John Chrysostom

My wife is a saint. She's Gandhi. She walks around in diapers and won't eat. — Bob Saget

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them. — Saint Augustine

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. — Saint Francis De Sales

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.' — Saint Augustine

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil. — Austin O'Malley

My footfall rang in a universe that was not theirs. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Children understand. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Bible says, 'If any would not work, neither should he eat.' Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse ten, — Ken Follett

One feels rather lonely in the dessert.'
'It is just as lonely among men. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman. — Laetitia Casta

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. — Anne Enright

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine. — Ogden Nash

Hell was made for the inquisitive. — Saint Augustine

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine

I understood this man was a Saint," he said.
"Something even rarer," said Dr. Urbino, "An atheistic saint. But those are matters for God to decide. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. — Saint Ignatius

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

You won't become a saint by studying your Bible; you'll become a saint by living it. — Leonard Ravenhill

I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be. — Chad Johnson

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. — Saint Augustine

The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together. — Saint John Chrysostom

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience. — St. Catherine Of Siena

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves. — Saint Augustine

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity. — Saint Augustine

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life. — Saint John Chrysostom

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me? — Saint Augustine

She would drive a saint to murder. Like, ten-stab-wounds-to-the-torso murder." "Good thing you're not a saint. — Alexandra Bracken

It is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint. — Eugenia Price

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

If Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off. — Vivian Vande Velde

It is of some use to my volcanoes, and it is of some use to my flower, that I own them. But you are of no use to the stars ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself. — Saint Augustine

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them. — Saint Basil

Said he little prince "But why do you always speak in riddles?"
"I solve them all" said the snake — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I still fall for your everyday. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

They buy things in ready-made stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another. — Kinky Friedman

Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint. — Leonora Carrington

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it? — Saint Augustine

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one ... — Peter Kreeft

Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer. — Zinedine Zidane

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now. — Colin Meloy

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint. — Peter Shaffer

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough. — Ethel Waters

I believe in order to understand — Saint Augustine

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him. — Saint Basil

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. — John Millington Synge

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them. — Yves Saint-Laurent

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy. — Alphonsus Liguori

We offend God because we do not know His greatness. — Benedict Joseph Labre

You will not become a saint through other people's sins. — Anton Chekhov

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous. — Yves Saint-Laurent

The one who sings, prays twice. — Saint Augustine

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth. — Saint Augustine

It's good to have a friend. Even if you're going to die. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail. — Saint Ignatius

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. — Saint Augustine

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed. — Saint Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies. — Saint John Chrysostom

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor. — Saint John Chrysostom

What do they not see, who see Him Who sees all things? — Pope Gregory I

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. — Saint Francis De Sales

The beginning of evil is heedlessness. — Poemen

Without the Spirit we can neither love God nor keep His commandments. — Saint Augustine

named for a man who became a saint but worked as a tax collector. — Matthew Minicucci

When I fed the hungry, they called me a saint. When I asked why people are hungry, they called me a communist. Charity — Shane Claiborne

The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us. — David A. Bednar

For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

One can't reach the Truth but trough Love. — Saint Augustine

It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people. — L. Frank Baum

That's right honey...It's much easier to follow the bitch than it is to follow the saint. — Maryln Schwartz

To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint. — Joseph Conrad

How is it possible for one to own the stars?"
"To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly.
"I don't know. To nobody. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them. — Saint John Chrysostom

It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things. — Saint Francis De Sales

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer

The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you. — Tito Colliander