“ In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;All quit their spere, and rush into the skies!Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes,Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ They say there's a heaven for those who await… some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints… the sinners are much more fun. ”
- Billy Joel- Copy
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“ God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. ”
- Frederick Buechner- Copy
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“ Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The martyrs to vice, far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ One does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. - Albert Schweitzer. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
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“ What we lack in Prophets, however, we make up for in Saints. Only a Pope may canonize a Saint, but every man, woman and child on this planet is a genuine and authorized Pope So you can ordain yourself - and anyone or anything else - a Saint. ”
- Kerry Thornley- Copy
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“ I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. ”
- Nelson Mandela- Copy
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“ What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
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“ But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. ”
- Apostle Paul- Copy
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“ A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement — in a word, with more renunciation than you care for — and so you flee the contagion. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled — secure from violent passions or temptations to evil — those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints. ”
- Eva Le Gallienne- Copy
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“ The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moments. ”
- Abu Sa’id- Copy
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“ We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. "I will be a saint" means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
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“ What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning," and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she has not suffered, still less a woman if she has not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that — the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart. ”
- Baroness Orczy- Copy
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