Books Quote by Willigis Jager

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

— Eric Hoffer

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

— Eric Hoffer

Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is.…

— Leonard Cohen

Human feelings change as the world changes. Their easy excitement can occasion a saint to lose his spiritual balance. Their constant disturbance can affect…

— Watchman Nee

“Our spiritual journey is—or ought to be—a deepening realization of the possibility of sainthood in all of us.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

“The man possessed a communal strength of body and soul, coupled with endless compassion and a desire to help the less fortunate of mind…

— Mary Campisi

“Patience of a saint. The mind of a sinner.”

— Ella Frank

The Saint within The Sinner

— Breaking Benjamin

“A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a cocktail waitress,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle.…

— Georges Bataille

There's something about Saint Francis's approach to life, zero expectations but pleasant surprise. In a lot of ways he was a really conflicted person.…

— Denison Witmer