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
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
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
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
Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood. — Patrick Madrid 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
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
“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
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 run away, It only fuels the flames. Don't pull away, It only makes me wanna stay.” — Tegan Quin 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception. — Quentin S. Crisp 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
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
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
