No Saint Without A Past Quotes

#1. There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Augustine Of Hippo

#2. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

William Shakespeare

#3. You've only talked like that since you became a horrid what's-his-name. You know what I mean. What do you call a man who wants to embrace the chimney-sweep?" "A saint," said Father Brown. "I think," said Sir Leopold, with a supercilious smile, "that Ruby means a Socialist.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. A saint belongs to all humanity.

Elif Shafak

#5. It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

Ephrem The Syrian

#6. If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.

Maimonides

#7. Way to equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creatures. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity - and liberty is added eventually by sleep. 297

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

Steven J. Lawson

#10. Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

#11. A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

George MacDonald

#12. Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

Pope Clement I

#13. If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

Peter Kreeft

#14. A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a cocktail waitress, the picture would be two such bands of light. Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is just dead machinery.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. One does not cross-examine a saint.

Victor Hugo

#16. as those old engravings of the 'Cenacolo,' or that painting by Gentile Bellini, in which one sees, in a state in which they no longer exist, the masterpiece of Leonardo and the portico of Saint Mark's. We

Marcel Proust