Saint Quotes

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The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do… — Dalton Trumbo
Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. — Evelyn Waugh
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread,… — Alexander Hamilton
All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind. When there is… — Rajneesh
Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners,… — Stanley Baldwin
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. — Isaac Watts
Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each… — Henry Adams
As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint. — Alexander Hamilton
The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Methought I saw my late espoused saint. — John Milton
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that… — Abraham Maslow
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in… — Erich Fromm
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To… — Roger Zelazny
Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,”… — Swami Vivekananda
I want to be like the patron saint of reality — Fiona Apple
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed… — Victor Hugo
Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns,… — Phyllis McGinley
The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes… — Oswald Chambers
You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ. — Frank E. Gaebelein
Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints. — J I Packer
God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work… — Edward McKendree Bounds
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead… — George Bernard Shaw
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is… — Henry Ward Beecher

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