Saint Quotes

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Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. — Brigham Young
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. — Thomas Merton
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious,… — H P Lovecraft
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. — Kurt Vonnegut
...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously… — Arthur W. Pink
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into… — John Burroughs
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How can you possibly believe he really loves you?â€ Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittierâ€™s hand.â€œYou have no choice,â€… — Chuck Palahniuk
There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and… — David Bohm
I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te… — D. H. Lawrence
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent… — Joseph Heller
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence. — Susan Beth Pfeffer
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. — Flannery O'Connor
No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they… — Evelyn Waugh
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests… — Albert Camus
Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!" Even saints have to… — Diane Duane
This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of… — Sylvia Plath
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either heâ€™s a saint or they themselves are not telling the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives… — Robert A. Heinlein

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