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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne Sexton
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce
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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.
Hsu Yun
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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
Evelyn Underhill
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Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
George Eliot
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Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
Evelyn Waugh
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.
George Orwell
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Saintliness is also a temptation.
Jean Anouilh
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Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.
Thomas Merton
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Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped
Colin S. Smith
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Saints are described as fearing the name of God they are reverent worshippers they stand in awe of the Lord's authority they are afraid of offending Him they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.
Charles Spurgeon
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Saint Christopher, who said, Where can I get a Frank Sinatra medal? Never got a dinner!
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Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.
Krishnananda Saraswati
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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
Walter Scott
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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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Saints are only sinners who keep trying.
Mother Teresa
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Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit of Him.
Mark Hart
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Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
Andrew Mason
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Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
George Santayana
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