Quotes About Saintliness

#1. Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves.

Rajneesh

#2. Saintliness is also a temptation.

Jean Anouilh

#3. Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

Steven Pinker

#4. Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

Paul Hawken

#5. What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#6. People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#7. In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

Israel Shenker

#8. You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

Max Lucado

#9. Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.

Meister Eckhart

#10. Mother Teresa, when asked about her holiness or saintliness, always answers in a matter-of-fact way that holiness is a necessity of life--and explains that it is not the luxury of a few, such as those who take the course of religious life, but is "a simple duty of all. Holiness is for everyone.

Lucinda Vardey

#11. St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

Carl Jung

#12. Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.

Wyndham Lewis

#13. 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

#14. Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

Simone Weil

#15. All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind. When there is no mind, there is no sinner and no saint, and the gift simply showers on you.

Rajneesh

#16. But one can acquire a taste for love as for loneliness or ugliness as for saintliness. Each a special way of going down.

Jack Gilbert

#17. The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment,
harmony with things as they happen.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#18. I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

Charlotte Bronte

#19. In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know as you knew the landscape and the roads in turgenev

Ernest Hemingway,

#20. You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

Harold S. Kushner

#21. You don't get your prebaby body back, ever, because you cannot go back to being a person who hasn't had a baby. Because you had a baby.

Wednesday Martin

#22. Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.

Ellis Peters

#23. "Angelophany" is the visible or otherwise tangible manifestation of angels to human beings. Abraham Lincoln frequently mentioned that he was visited by angels at the White House ...

James R. Lewis

#24. Don't you wonder sometimes," sang Bowie all the way to Kinshasa, "about sound and vision?

Aleksandar Hemon

#25. When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you.

Rajneesh

#26. Tell them you're pregnant with a married minister's baby, then say, "Just kidding! I'm a vampire,'" she suggested.

Molly Harper

#27. No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune ... There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.

Uell Stanley Andersen

#28. It answers to the name of Henry, but you can call it Library Boy.

Audrey Niffenegger

#29. I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

Jim Rohn

#30. We are moved by self-interest, even when we seek to do good to others.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#31. Thank you everyone for your kind words, support and prayers!! I'm hurting right now but it's great to know good people have my back!!

Roman Reigns

#32. The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

Anthony De Mello

#33. A saint is not a person who does not sin; but a sinner who never stops doing good

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#34. Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.

Charles Dickens

#35. I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

Anais Nin