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[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When… — Elizabeth Gilbert
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy,… — Booth Tarkington
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can… — Dylan Thomas
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves. — Jean Vanier
An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and… — Sivananda
I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.â€ Seeing Poppyâ€™s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, â€œIf a band of pirates kidnapped me and… — Lisa Kleypas
It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it… — Simon R. Green
She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the… — Walter Pater
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We canâ€™t all be saints and martyrs. — Stephenie Meyer
Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didnâ€™tâ€¦Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm an angel not a frickin' saint. — J R Ward
No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is… — Spencer W. Kimball
if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off. — Vivian Vande Velde
They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of… — Thomas Merton
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a… — Thomas Merton
The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in… — Thomas Merton
What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you… — Thomas Merton
If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremismâ€”I don't know whether he is… — Emile M. Cioran
I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines — Joanne Harris
Really, doesnÂ´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even… — Ernst Junger

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