Saints quotes

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◆ God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

- Soren Kierkegaard100

◆ I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find...

- Tom Waits99

◆ They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun...

- Billy Joel99

◆ Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life

- Jeremiah Burroughs99

◆ No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

- Charles Simeon99

◆ Saints need sinners.

- Alan Watts99

◆ Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

- George Orwell99

◆ The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

- Benito Mussolini99

◆ The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

- Matthew Henry99

◆ And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

- William Gurnall99

◆ Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

- Pamela Hansford Johnson99

◆ In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

- Frederick Buechner99

◆ That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

- Thomas Aquinas99

◆ The saints thus receive qualities that are forbidden to man, and these qualities are owed precisely to the fact that man is capable of loving and the ultimate form of love is the Holiness.

- Sorin Cerin99