Change Quote by Anne D. LeClaire

“Yet man is sometimes a very strange being. By all the Saints, he will talk of doing things, yet leave them undone, and remain…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.”

— Eric Hoffer

“A lifetime of eating at the foot of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil had produced a vision of saints and sinners.…

— R.J. Blizzard

“saints always have a past and sinners always have a future,”

— Christopher Risso-gill

“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in…

— Francois Maspero

“A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.”

— Emil Cioran

“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had…

— George Orwell

“You cannot imagine what wrath and sadness overcome your whole soul when a great idea, which you have long cherished as holy, is caught…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those who ought to be models…

— Santa Teresa de Jesús

“My task was not an easy one; often I would rather have pleased than teased him. My future husband was becoming to me my…

— Charlotte Brontë

“And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that…

— James Lee Burke

“It was harder to see how a boy like that, so inspired by a saint, could be attracted to a sinner like me.”

— Amy Harmon