Family Quote by Donna Chapman Gilbert

“There was a time when I prayed to saints. What I liked about them were their humble beginnings: they were human, once, and so…

— Jodi Picoult

“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had…

— George Orwell

The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the Kingdom of…

— Silouan the Athonite

“This is our Lord’s method of making saints. He speaks of things that are not as though they were.”

— F.B. Meyer

“Saints are merely tyrants in the kingdom of virtue.”

— Julia Glass

“It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it was because…

— Thomas Merton

“Why is it that when people die, we make such an effort to turn them into saints? Especially when the entire reason we loved…

— Alison Arngrim

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their…

— Phyllis McGinley

“Everyone is a hypocrite in one sense or another and I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”

— Billy Joel

“A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.”

— Emil Cioran

“And anyway, it has been my experience that what makes us the saints of  God is not our ability to be saintly but rather…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“Life doesn't discriminate Between the sinners and the saints It takes and it takes and it takes And we keep living anyway We rise…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda