“I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart. I want to give directions, helpful hints. What you'll be… — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
“All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine… — Tegan Quin Copy Share Image
The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again.… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
“When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“In many chapels, reddened by the setting sun, the saints rest silently, waiting for someone to love them." These words, penned by… — Susan Peek Copy Share Image
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to… — K'naan Copy Share Image
