No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human… — George Orwell 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
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell 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
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean… — William Croswell Doane 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
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
“Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn’t like things that were ineffable… …a lot of… — Donald Barthelme 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
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
According to the Church, one of the key attributes of sainthood is death. You have to die first. So, I'll agree already… — Lino Rulli 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
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“In many chapels, reddened by the setting sun, the saints rest silently, waiting for someone to love them. (This quote was the… — An priest long dead Copy Share Image
I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane. — Bari Weiss 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
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood… — Mircea Eliade 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
Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Don't bend, don't bleed, don't beg, don't scream, don't whine, don't fight, don't tell me. Don't tell me, don't tell me. Don't… — Tegan Quin 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
