Sainthood Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that… — Joseph Brodsky
Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would… — William Faulkner
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. — Andrew Mason
The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation… — Mircea Eliade
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. — Pamela Hansford Johnson
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we… — Pamela Hansford Johnson
Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred,… — M. Scott Peck
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of… — Anais Nin
God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood. — Sri Chinmoy
Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God. — C.S. Lewis
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away. — Ramakrishna
Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything… — Anthony Burgess
The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to… — Derek Jarman
The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and… — George Grosz
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most… — Gerald R. Ford
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much… — George Orwell
I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even… — Isabel Allende
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. — George Orwell
We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can… — Paul Newman

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