Culture Quote by Martin E. Marty

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Brennan Manning

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

— William Barclay

If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.

— Maimonides

We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being…

— Frederick Lenz

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

— Laurence Housman

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

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint.…

— Edward James Olmos

The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given…

— Brooke Westcott

“ A saint is not to take the initiative toward self-realization, but toward knowing Jesus Christ. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that his circumstances…

— Oswald Chambers

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

— Peter Kreeft