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“Saints are usually killed by their own people.”

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Author:Eric Sevareid

“The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Cha. Churchill in Three Volumes: With the Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of Cha. Churchill in Three Volumes: With the Life of the Author

“The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.”

“Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...

Source: The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...

“Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.”

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Book:The gleaner

Source: The gleaner

“It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.”

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Author:Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

“[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.”

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Author:Moliere

“one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too much and do too little, who cannot forget their own selfish salvation enough to look after other people's without feeling their own spiritual pulse all the time they are doing it. Of late I've sometimes suspected that it is nearly as debilitating to stay in the church all the time as it would be to stay in a hospital all the time.”

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Author:Corra May Harris

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.”

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Author:Benito Mussolini

“A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”

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Author:Abigail Van Buren

“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.”

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Author:Walter Scott

“The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis