1991 Quote by Christopher S. Hyatt

“One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.…

— Oscar Wilde

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

— Benito Mussolini

“In those ancient rooms near the center of Belaire all our wisdom originates, born in the gossip's mind as she sits to watch the…

— John Crowley

“Saints and mystics, revelations, origin myths, and heroes' journeys, as well as ethical and spiritual guidelines, speak to us from ancient times and far-flung…

— Sandra Harner

“we have only the haziest notions about the religions of ancient foragers. We assume that they were animists, but that’s not very informative. We…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Stories of the beleaguered Saints and of their suffering and death will be repeated again and again...Stories of their rescue need to be repeated…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“A lifetime of eating at the foot of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil had produced a vision of saints and sinners.…

— R.J. Blizzard

“Yet contrary evidence supports a claim that the Master was unjustly aligned with evil. Fragments of manuscript survive which expose the entire religion of…

— Janny Wurts

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

— Anonymous

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories,…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste…

— Emil Cioran