“Don't run away, It only fuels the flames. Don't pull away, It only makes me wanna stay.” — Tegan Quin Copy Share Image
“Sainthood is not a prerequisite for acceptance to medical school. Perhaps it should be.” — Rosamund Kendal Copy Share Image
Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood. — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
“I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know.” — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow.” — Tegan and Sara Copy Share Image
“Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long… — Tegan Quin Copy Share Image
“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Any work of art," said her grandfather,"must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.” — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
“Our spiritual journey is—or ought to be—a deepening realization of the possibility of sainthood in all of us.” — Anne D. LeClaire 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
“But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an… — Lois McMaster Bujold 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
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
The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our… — M. Scott Peck 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
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
Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If… — Anthony Burgess 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
“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
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
God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“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
“On the drive back here I was worrying over nothing. On the drive back there tears spilling over something.” — Sara Quin 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
Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from… — John Osborne 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
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
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