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“The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.”

Heart Matter Christianity Saint Sinner Competent

Author:Charles Peguy

“To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.”

War Creation Weapons And Love Saint Fabric Wages Truth And Love

Book:A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings

Source: A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings

“With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.”

Absolutes Atheist Saint Devotion Sincerity Mistaken

Book:A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings

Source: A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings

“No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well as of his studiousness and zeal. He knew mathematics and perspective, and there was nothing which he was unable to know; and at the same time he was sufficiently acquainted with languages to be able to understand the saints and the philosophers and the wise men of antiquity but his knowledge of languages was not such as to enable him to effect translations until the latter portion of his life.”

Knows Men Wells Reason Able Language Lord Wise Effects Perspective Mathematics Saint Philosopher Latter Length Portions Translations Zeal Bishops Antiquity Length Of Life

Author:Roger Bacon

“Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.”

Use Prayer Holy Lips Saint Pilgrim Juliet Romeo And Juliet Play Romeo Juliet Romeo And Juliet Juliet Romeo And Juliet Romeo

Book:A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871

Source: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871

“It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.”

Way Christian Universe Differences Accepting Emotional Saint Passionate Practicals Resignation Stoic Religious Experience

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Moving Steps Risk Willing Succeed Method Assuming Charity Saint Resistance First Steps Willing To Try

Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

Source: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950

“A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.”

Doe Real Wanted Three Interesting Four Saint Martyr Doing Nothing

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.”

Two Three Five Saint

Book:GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

“Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.”

Lasts Century Profound Saint Thinker

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.”

Wells Body Faces Sex Animal Modern Saint Attraction Liberalism Urges Repulsion Attraction And Repulsion Modern Liberalism

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.”

Earth Duty Saint Latter Latter Days Latter Day Saints

Author:Brigham Young

“The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.”

Men Two Together Chance Christianity Safe Saint Quarrels Apostles Infidel

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.”

Thousand Train Saint Clouds Triumph Sinner Attending Descending

Author:Charles Wesley

“A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.”

People Writing Humans Said Book Might Human Beings Ability Masters Genius Saint Selfish Eggs Butterfly Eagles Caterpillars Monasteries

Book:One Minute Wisdom

Source: One Minute Wisdom

“Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.”

Reason Might Christianity Fame Essentials Worship Angel Saint Doctrine France Spain Atonement Trinity Transubstantiation

Book:An History of the Corruptions of Christianity

Source: An History of the Corruptions of Christianity

“Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.”

Ifs Knows Angel Saint Demon Killers Nobody Knows Serials Serial Killer Teresa Grimace Zidane

Author:Zinedine Zidane

“The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.”

“This is really an opportunity to mobilize a new generation of scholars and pastors not just to equip the saints but also to engage the culture and reclaim it for Christ. That's really what is driving me.”

Culture Opportunity Christ Generations Saint Driving Scholar Pastor New Generation

Author:William A. Dembski

“The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.”

Ideas Country Bigs Quality Company Impact Saint Patron Big Impact Quality Control

Author:Akio Morita

“Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.”

Humans Suffering Humanity Human Beings Sin Sacrifice Ordinary Saint Burden Sage Ordeals Omission

Author:Sarada Devi

“Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.”

Want Saint Autopsy

Book:Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake

“You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.”

Thinking Asks Quality Player Football Fairs Sorry Saint Ask Me I'm Sorry

Author:Arsene Wenger

“A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!”

Simple Saint Sinner

Author:Catherine Doherty

“Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Bigs Names Powerful Magic Stones Bigger Saint Circles Santa

Book:Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files

Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files

“The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!”

May Ego Saint Careful Sinner Refined Crude Poisonous

Author:Frederick Franck

“The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.”

Tasks Saint Ministers Sinner Collars

Author:Hugh Price Hughes

“A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.”

Self Character Causes Sacrifice Bears Equal Saint Denial Martyr Thorough Strength Of Character Misers Self-denial

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.”

“While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.”

People Stills Jesus Language Saint Spending Backgrounds Saving Landscape Toys Spinning Christmas Day Still Life

Author:St. Vincent

“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.”

Ifs Dies Force Wish Forget Virtue Humility Particular Charity Saint Never Forget Wish To Die

Author:Theodore Guerin

“So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating war in Afghanistan and maintaining over 850 military bases around the world, the administration has run up the national debt that Smith decried. By shifting the tax burden off property and off rent-seeking monopolies - above all, off the financial sector - this policy has raised America's cost of living and doing business, thereby undercutting its competitive power and running up larger and larger foreign debt.”

“Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.”

Calling Moved Saint Pilgrim Charisma

Author:B. W. Powe

“Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.”

Ifs Children Christian Teach Economy Virtue Daughter Our Children Saint Your Children Modesty Our Daughter Your Daughter

Author:Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

“The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.”

People World Forget Study Saint Jew Remembered Holocaust

Author:Roman Vishniac

“Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.”

Son Saint Southern Mack

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.”

People Artist Teacher Saint Prophet Good People

Book:The question of things happening

Source: The question of things happening

“Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.”

Giving Song Next Honor Highest Saint Theology Verses Rhyme Godly

Author:Martin Luther

“The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.”

Laughing Hell Saint Dare Damn Sinner This Day Sanctify

Book:Popular Christianity, a series of lectures

Source: Popular Christianity, a series of lectures

“The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.”

Men Has Beens Age Lasts Generations Atheism Century He Man Men And Women Saint Positive Atheism March Pious Heretic Persecuted Infidel

Book:Theological Essays

Source: Theological Essays

“Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.”

World Two Atheism Mouths Saint Positive Atheism Foolish Dust Prophet Sage Scorn Thrust Two Worlds

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.”

Ifs Men Values Atheism Saint Positive Atheism Admire Demon Dislike Preacher Biographies

Author:George C. Lorimer

“"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing."”

Believe Humans Children Said Fantasy Atheism Influence Horror Died Don't Believe Saint Positive Atheism Nervous Believe In God Santa Santa Claus Nervous System Banging

Book:The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel

Source: The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel

“Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.”

Real Self Passion Christ Christianity Atheism Self Love Saint Positive Atheism Torture Knives Martyr Medieval Whipping Wild Passion Real Christianity

Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.”

“God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and yet I have heard now and then (I am very glad to say that only a low such instances have come under my notice) a brother or a sister say, 'I am a Latter-day Saint, but I do not believe in polygamy.' Oh, what an absurd expression! What an absurd idea! A person might as well say, 'I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, but I do not believe in him.'”

“There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculate or encourage polygamy... And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.”

Law Church Teaching Land Advice Saint Latter Associates Forbidden Refrain Polygamy Latter Days Latter Day Saints Contracting

Book:In the Whirlpool: The Pre-manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885-1890

Source: In the Whirlpool: The Pre-manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885-1890

“I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.”

Persons Clear Son Praying Let Me Saint Sinner My Son I Pray

Author:Van Jones