Ends Quote by Alphonsus Liguori

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

— Flannery O'Connor

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

— Rachel Martin

“Here is the lesson: Great men and women of God are not exempt from hurt and offense. Instead, enduring the wounds of fellow Christians…

— Stephen Mansfield

Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

— Steven Pinker

“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would…

— Flannery O'Connor

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

— Eric Hoffer

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

— Nissim Ezekiel

“I agree that every saint has a past, but not that every sinner has a future. In this life we see a great many…

— Criss Jami

“Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are…

— George Eliot

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

— Charles Peguy

Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.

— George Herbert