Jean-genet Quote by Jean Genet

“A saint is a human being who neither wants nor needs to hurt you.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

“But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“It means ‘God is good, and the devil is not so bad to those he likes.”

— Amanda Hocking

“a saint with the heart of a devil, or a fiend with the soul of a saint.”

— Abraham Eraly

“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

“A saint abroad and a devil at home.”

— John Bunyan

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.”

— Eric Hoffer

“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence,…

— Philippe Claudel

“Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint.”

— NEil Gevisser

“A man becomes a saint not by conviction that he is better than sinners but by the realization that he is one of them,…

— Thomas Merton

“But then I sigh, with a piece of Scripture Tell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe…

— William Shakespeare

“He lived like a devil and died like a saint”

— Haidji