Being yourself Quote by Felix Adler

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for…

— Felix Adler

The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete…

— J. C. Ryle

“The transition from the good man to the saint is a sort of revolution; by which one for whom all things illustrate and illuminate…

— G.K. Chesterton

A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has…

— Frederick Lenz

The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.

— Wei Wu Wei

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of…

— W. H. Auden

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

— Brennan Manning

A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its…

— Evelyn Underhill

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

— William Barclay

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

— Coventry Patmore

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

— Laurence Housman