Pray to God and the saints for you and me, but be punctual to-night.
Farewell, friend Siebermeier; God and the saints will reward you for the service you have rendered us.
Only devout thoughts should fill her heart; and she ought to pray and implore the saints to vouchsafe happiness to her.
The dead arise with appropriate mortuary pallor, the halo of Christ is pure gold, and all the draperies of God and His saints are in true, primary shadings.
Before these storm-tossed Saints lay the fair and pagan country of Provence, the scene of their future mission; and if tradition is to be further believed, each went his way, to work mightily for the sacred cause.
The doctrine of the Communion of Saints and that of the Sacrament of Penance were very pleasing to me.
Father Hecker had the very highest estimate of his holiness, and mourned him with the mingled sorrow and joy with which saints are mourned.
Hence, too, I am so much attracted to saints who have had to struggle on alone like St. Catherine of Genoa, who was without a director for twenty-five years.
Shpake to him," said Dinny, trembling; "and the blessed saints stand bechuckst me and harm!
The hills, where dwelled holy saints, I reverence and adore, Not for themself, but for the saints Which have been dead of yore.
Such merrimake holy saints doth queme, But we here sitten as drown'd in dream.
In evil hour thou hentst in hand Thus holy hills to blame, For sacred unto saints they stand, And of them have their name.
Such illustrious men as thesaints can, of course, be easily traced, as all were proud to establish connection with them; while Columba himself and several others were men of royal descent.
They were, as we have seen, independent of Rome from the beginning, and this great host of saints had lived and left their biographies to the world long before the system of judicial canonisation.
The more eminent of the saints had great influence in state affairs, ruling in some measure the monarchs themselves.
There is no doubt that the saints of Irish origin supply by far the more important portion of our hagiology.
There are throughout the United Kingdom multitudes of wells, still bearing the names of the saints to whom they were dedicated.
Some of the inhabitants of the deep familiar to these saints were animals of a formidable kind.
The crowds of saints who come sometimes swarming in on a single day to these teeming volumes, give one an almost oppressive notion of the quantity of goodness that must have, after all, existed in this wicked world.
How a boundary is professed to be drawn between the genuine and the false among these saints of the North, cannot be easily understood.
It was indeed among their own people, the Celts of Ireland and of the Irish colony in the west of Scotland, that the reign of these saints was absolute.
In the next place, Wodrow left behind several biographies of eminent members of his own Church, its saints and martyrs; and goodly masses out of this storehouse have also been printed.
The little that we do know is learned from the meagre notices which the biographers of the saints have furnished of that which the saints superseded.
They point to a stone said to commemorate a victory gained over the Picts and the Saxons by the Britons, not through their courage or their skill in fight, but by the Halleluiahs raised by two saints who were present in their host.
In our conception of the kings with whom these saints were familiar, it may be well not to be misled by words.
How much service would be called for by those collections for the saints which St. Paul urges so frequently upon the Churches!
He does not enter upon reasons for his admonition, or he might have selected a goodly list of Old Testament saints who for their faith were called to suffer.
As St. Paul writes to Philemon, who appears to have been eminent in good offices, the hearts of the saints were refreshed by this godly intercourse.
And so with all the saints and prophets of the first covenant.
And problems continually present themselves which even to the saints are hard to be solved.
The young Catholics turned their attention to the saints rather than to the theologians, and found inspiration in a fresh study of the Catholic mystics.
She was not destined however to adorn the calendar of mystic saints for, in 1543, she fell dangerously sick and was warned to prepare for death.
God and the saints when, if the confessor is imprudently given to spirituality, he reduces their utterances to writing and, if he is learned, he defends them, very often with propositions punishable by the Inquisition.
Only saints in heaven were to be adored and not images, which were but wood and plaster.
This spiritualized hypnotism was in no way original with Molinos, but was the goal which all the mystic saints sought to attain.
Whether this applied to renouncing St. Peter, St. Paul and other saints was a more doubtful question on which the doctors differed.
While it was empowered to do this by the decree of Urban VIII, it is not easy to see whence Inquisitor-general Arce y Reynoso obtained faculties to authorize the cult of supposititious saints not accepted by the Holy See.
An argumentative duett followed, much to the scandal of the saints and the hilariousness of the sinners, until the pitying organist struck up with great force: "From whence doth this union arise?
May their saints propitiate this insatiate thirst!
An American girl laughed at the bearded figures in a San Francisco joss-house, but looked solemn when I referred to the saints in a Catholic cathedral in the same city.
She waits in confident expectation that before long she too will depart to be with Christ and His redeemed, where the families of his saints will be reunited for ever.
The world took knowledge of the saints of old, that they had been with Jesus.
Saints and Sinners is only the first of a series of dramas and comedies, in which Mr. Jones has fearlessly attacked the hypocrisies of religion, in their most characteristic form.
What Mr. Jones satirised in Saints and Sinners, was the money-making spirit that went hand in hand with bigotry.
This famous crucifix by Brunelleschi is now in the Gondi Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria Novella; that by Donatello is in the chapel of Saints Ludovico and Bartolommeo in the Church of Santa Croce.
And with this certainly sincere faith and illuminism of his there was blended a martyr's pride, delight at being one of the radiant, worshipped saints of the dawning Revolutionary Church.
People no longer believe; churches are built like barracks, and decorated with saints and virgins fit to make one weep.
True, there have been great saints in the church; but then there have been great saints out of it.
Now Our Lady love you and the saints protect you, bless your sweet face," he muttered; "and may all you do be the best that can be done for every one.
It is unnecessary to labour the obvious identity between Saints George and Michael: "George," meaning husbandman, i.
In Cornwall almost every parish is named after some saintly apostle, and many of these saints are alleged to have travelled far and wide in the world founding towns and villages.
I am convinced," says Wright, "that a large portion of the reliques of saints shown in the Middle Ages, were taken from the barrows or graves of the early population of the countries in which they were shown.
It has long been generally appreciated that the lives of saints are not only for the most part mythical, but that even documentary evidence on that subject is equally suspect.
As already suggested the greater probability is that the lives of the saints enshrine almost intact the traditions of pre-Christian divinities.
It is probable that not only the literature of the saints but also many of the national traditions of our own and other lands arose from the misinterpretation of the symbolic signs and figures which preceded writing.
It never entered into the heads of the saints and scholars, the poets and painters, of the Middle Ages.
To die for what one knows to be true, as many saints have done--that is well.
Stout of leg, light-footed, with a tricksy plume to his cap, and the swagger of one who would beard the Saints for a wager, this Aladdin was just such a galliard as Angelica had often fondled in her dreams.
Thus it is that with the saints the slightest transgression of the laws appears at once in the light of mortal sin.
Yet since in danger courts abound, Where specious rivals glitter round, From snares may saints preserve you; And grant your love or friendship ne'er From any claim a kindred care, But those who best deserve you!
It should have shamed him into honesty; but he was capable of trying to deceive the saints and the Virgin; he merely decided that she was in a fit frame to accept him.
There is a window at Bourges in which the glories of the saints are inlaid with jewels of red, blue, green, and violet, which have more the effect of jewellery than if they had been glazed in the usual way.
In longer lights two saints are often figured, sitting one above the other.
In this case Charles the Fifth and his wife Isabella and their attendantsaints are the picture, the object of their adoration, the Almighty, being relegated to one of the side arches.
Donors and their patron saints are often important personages in the foreground of the picture.
At Cologne Cathedral also sundry saints are pigeon-holed in this way.
At Wells there occur little figures of saints in pot-metal colour, planted upon the white foliated filling of the tracery lights.
There the communion of Saints was, as in no other way on earth, realized.
Midst clouds of golden light, a pathway clear, With soaring soul, these martyred saintshave trod To Him, the only true Almighty God!
The business of angels and saints in heaven is to intensely seek after a more full knowledge of God.
If this were sin on his part, it certainly was a sin that he shared with manysaints long since in Paradise.
Looking in his gentle face, which yet had such high courage, such noble resolution in it, I felt that in him the spirit of the saints and martyrs of long past ages lived again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saints" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
