Top 61 Quotes About Sainthood
#1. Any work of art," said her grandfather,"must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.
Jane Urquhart
#2. According to the Church, one of the key attributes of sainthood is death. You have to die first. So, I'll agree already (that) I might not have all the attributes that usually that the Church looks for when canonizing somebody because I'm supposed to be dead already.
Lino Rulli
#3. Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.
John Osborne
#4. If you've never hurt anyone, put down your keyboard and go apply for sainthood. You are the wrong kind of liar to be a writer.
Victoria Mixon
#5. No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
George Orwell
#6. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
#7. Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
Joseph Brodsky
#8. Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#9. To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.
Mircea Eliade
#10. Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.
C.S. Lewis
#11. I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve sainthood, every one.
Robert T. Bakker
#12. Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
Andrew Mason
#13. What it comes down to, Red, is some people refuse to get their hands dirty at all. That's called sainthood, and the pigeons land on your shoulders and crap all over your shirt.
Stephen King
#14. If there were ever a cadaver eligible for sainthood, it would not be our Spalding Gray upon the cross, it would be these guys: the brain-dead, beating-heart organ donors that come and go in our hospitals every day.
Mary Roach
#15. The alien girl - she called herself Dorothy - was by virtue of her survival elevated to living sainthood. The dog was merely annoying.
Gregory Maguire
#16. The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.
George Grosz
#17. The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
Ramakrishna
#18. But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#19. His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.
Peter Ackroyd
#20. God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood.
Sri Chinmoy
#21. I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.
Anais Nin
#22. I'll even give you two moments, seeing as how I'm feeling generous." "Thank you ever so much. I'll contact the Vatican straight away to extoll your virtues and petition for sainthood.
Ben Reeder
#24. Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the late pope's followers believe he is already there.
Chris Matthews
#25. We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
Paul Newman
#26. Teresa [of Avila]'s story dismantles the common belief that all those chosen for sainthood are flawless in personality and character. Indeed, she would want us to consider her contradictions and struggles as integral to her sainthood.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#27. I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
Gerald R. Ford
#28. Sometimes it seems that the louder someone claims sainthood,
the bigger the horns they are hiding.
Steve Maraboli
#29. By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary," because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood.
Patti Smith
#30. Can you nominate someone's tongue for sainthood?
Elle Kennedy
#31. Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.
Patrick Madrid
#32. I need help," she said breathlessly. "Can you zip me up?"
"This has got to qualify me for sainthood," Silas muttered. "A man can only take so much, for fuck's sake.
Maya Banks
#33. 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
#34. I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.
K'naan
#35. With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#36. The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.
William Croswell Doane
#37. The dream was ennobling but doomed. It was Malcolm's curse to see this before the most of the rest of us; it was the beginning of his sainthood that when black Americans reached that point--when they arrived, that is to say, at their blackness--Malcolm was already there.
Peter Goldman
#39. Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
Jonathan Haidt
#40. I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.
Bella Abzug
#41. Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.
Anthony Burgess
#42. Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.
William Faulkner
#43. One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
Ellis Peters
#44. Don't run away, It only fuels the flames. Don't pull away, It only makes me wanna stay.
Tegan Quin
#45. On the drive back here I was worrying over nothing. On the drive back there tears spilling over something.
Sara Quin
#46. Make a map of what you see,
Direct pain effectively.
Tegan Quin
#47. All I said to you, all i did for you, seems so silly to me now.
Tegan Quin
#48. Unnerved, the nerve, you're nervous, nervous that I'm right.
Sara Quin
#49. We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#50. A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#51. Of course George Orwell was not a saint - he could be unfaithful to his wife and suspicious of democracy, for starters - and it's a good thing, too, because saints are always hard to take seriously.
William Giraldi
#52. I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know.
Sara Quin
#54. Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow.
Tegan Quin
#55. I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart. I want to give directions, helpful hints. What you'll be looking for.
Sara Quin
#56. Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.
Tegan Quin
#57. A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#60. All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine you, body next to another.
Tegan Quin
#61. Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
Dorothy Day
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
