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Tag Name "Saints" (414)

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Saints are only sinners who keep trying.
Mother Teresa
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Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
Thomas Brooks
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Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.
Pope Francis
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Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.
Pat Conroy
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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.
George Orwell
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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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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne Sexton
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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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Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.
Stanley Hauerwas
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Saints rarely have friends they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.
Taylor Caldwell
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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 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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Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
George Eliot
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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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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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Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
Evelyn Underhill
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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 can spring from any soil.
John Steinbeck
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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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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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Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.
Peter Kreeft
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
Teresa of Avila
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Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.
Rumi
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