Saintly Life Quotes

#1. There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

William James

#2. The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#3. I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.

Karan Johar

#4. The venerable C.S. Lewis once said, in a way that he alone seemed to be able to say: "You cannot go on being a good egg forever, you must either hatch or rot!

Charles Thomas

#5. If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we've got to do things that no one else is doing.

Andy Stanley

#6. I have a request to make,my lord."
He held her gaze; she could see him trying to decide what she might ask, but eventually he surrendered."And that is?"
"Take me to your bed.

Stephanie Laurens

#7. Guard your thoughts.
Your thoughts define the state of your wellness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

Margaret Laurence

#9. Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.

Emil Cioran

#10. salvation is less like a good man becoming a saintly man than it is like a statue coming to life.

Louis Markos

#11. Words are the most beautiful things existed in the world, but they die as fast as they were born, unless you convert them to act!
The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. The realism of failure, the romance of success.

Mason Cooley

#13. I want to grow up and do something cool with my life, such as build an orphanage in a third world country like all those saintly Hollywood celebrities. That or, like, cause a scandal and become mega-famous.

Shirley Marr

#14. You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.

Luke Bryan

#15. Illegitimate children can be left money, but they can't inherit the peerage."
"You wouldn't want it," Cameron put in. "More trouble than it's worth. And for God's sake, don't murder Hart or I'm next.

Jennifer Ashley

#16. Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .' He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. 'They change back.

Joe Abercrombie

#17. Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

Heather Brooke

#18. You were used to say extremity was the trier of spirits; that common chances common men could bear; that when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating

William Shakespeare

#19. Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.

Orson Scott Card