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If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a… — Howard Gardner
It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. — Mahatma Gandhi
The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a… — William Hazlitt
This earth is not our home. We are away at school, trying to master the lessons of "the great plan of happiness" so we can… — Bruce C. Hafen
There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit… — Lorenzo Snow
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop… — George Monbiot
All saints have past and all sinners have a future. — Anton Chekhov
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that… — Martin Luther
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all. — Therese of Lisieux
The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God. — John Vianney
And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque… — Fulton J. Sheen
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. — Oswald Chambers
We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of God. Significant is… — Pope John Paul II
There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint. — Leon Bloy
If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the… — Mother Teresa
A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is… — Peter Kreeft
Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future.… — Pope John Paul II
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history. — Pope John Paul II
Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the… — Philip Neri
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong… — Robert Southwell
I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. — Therese of Lisieux
There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain… — Lorenzo Snow
The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God. — Oswald Chambers

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