Appeals Quote by Albert Camus

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints,…

— Graham Greene

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

— Albert Camus

Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is conquered by…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely,…

— Henry Suso

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

— Sophie Swetchine

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

— Peter Kreeft

The saints thus receive qualities that are forbidden to man, and these qualities are owed precisely to the fact that man is capable of…

— Sorin Cerin

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is…

— Therese of Lisieux

Jesus is giving you such an opportunity to be holy, holier than all the saints that have ever been, because the world is in…

— Mother Angelica

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

— Anne Rice

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding…

— Thomas Merton

I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

— Meg Rosoff