Quote by Jeremiah Burroughs

“Yet man is sometimes a very strange being. By all the Saints, he will talk of doing things, yet leave them undone, and remain…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are…

— George Eliot

“Aren't we all -- not just the saints and saintly, but also all we ordinary sorts-- meant, at lest occasionally, to dream the dreams…

— Marsha Sinetar

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

— Julia Glass

“.. or a saint who had spent all his years preparing for his grand entry into heaven, only to discover on his deathbed that…

— Olga Grushin

“Our saints have always been theives and murderers. That's the proof of the loftiness of their hearts. (spoken by Ulrich's neighbor)”

— Rana Dasgupta

“The essence of sainthood is expiation.”

— Rex Stout

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

— F.B. Meyer

“There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we…

— Jessica Fortunato

“Alas! They were so young, so beautiful, so lonely, loving, helpless, and the hour was that in which the heart is always full, annd,…

— George Gordon Byron

“Every saint in heaven is as a flower in that garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Saints, such as me, ought always to listen attentively to the prayers of poor, dirty, ragged men, such as you. No matter how offensively…

— Susanna Clarke