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To be a saint means to be separated. But it means more than that. The saint also is to be involved in a vital process of sanctification. We are to be purified daily in the growing pursuit of holiness. If we are justified, we must also be sanctified. -- R.c. Sproul
We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us. -- Dorothy Day
No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human. We smile a last smile, and I walk away. I feel her watching me, but I don't look back. -- Markus Zusak
The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one ... -- Peter Kreeft
People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be. -- Paul Farmer
My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint. -- David Maraniss
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. -- Truman Capote
I declare this man a saint! -- Andrew Cormier
A saint is long past any desire for distinction; he is the only sort of superior man who has never been a superior person. -- G.k. Chesterton
You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life. -- Wendy Beckett
I'm no saint but I do believe in what is right. -- Kid Rock
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self. -- Thomas Merton
I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough. -- Ethel Waters
I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf. -- Bernhard Langer
The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God. -- Brooke Westcott
I married a saint - well, a saint who curses. -- Ray Romano
The Lord preserve us from sainthood -- Nikos Kazantzakis
A person's destiny can be changed through the power of a saint. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Saint Delphi my ass. -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
Saint Claire, the patron saint of the kick-me sign. -- Rachel Caine
The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ. -- Oswald Chambers
What does it take to become a saint? Will it. -- Thomas Aquinas
None of us are saints. We can all do better. -- Marie Lu
Is there any saint without a sin? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr? -- Louise Penny
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
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others. -- John Calipari
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
It's easy to be a saint when all you've known is the good. -- Donna Lynn Hope
A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary. -- Martin E. Marty
Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. -- Evelyn Waugh
It's hard to be a saint in the city. -- Bruce Springsteen
The saint who satisfies the heart of Jesus will make other saints strong and mature for God. -- Oswald Chambers
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. -- Minna Antrim
I hope he's just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel. -- Robert A. Heinlein
It is the duty of a Saint of God to gain all the influence he can on this earth, and to use every particle of that influence to do good. -- Brigham Young
May the saints preserve me. -- Deidre Dalton
The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment,
harmony with things as they happen. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination. -- Thomas Merton
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
If being a saint is complete devotion to a cause, bravery and altruism, then I think Mrs Sendlerowa fulfils all the conditions.I think about her the way you think about someone you owe your life to. -- Irena Sendler
You were always such a saint ... and now you're lost. -- Bree Despain
There are no super saints, only those that don't quit. -- Misty Edwards
One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. -- Idries Shah
Methought I saw my late espoused saint. -- John Milton
All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father. -- Mother Teresa
I would prefer to be a satyr rather than a saint. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We're not saints, any of us. Maybe somebody is, but I don't know those people. But we all know people who behave very smugly and are very egotistical and put you down as a manner of improving their own place in the world or improving their own place in the world. -- Heidi Julavits
How do I recognize a real saint? Whom I shall see within me whether it is in dreams or trances or meditations, He will be the Saint to me. Because God is the only Saint in this world. He is within our bodies. When He will manifest within my body in the form of a person, he will be saint to me. -- Jibankrishna
The saint is the apology for the Christian religion. He is holy, however, because he allows Christ to live in him and it is in Christ that he "glories". -- Hans Urs Von Balthasar
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. -- Oswald Chambers
To become a pious saint, experience first as as a ruthless killer. -- Kunal Narayan Uniyal
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him. -- Oswald Chambers
I don't want to be a saint, and would rather be a buffoon ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God. -- C.s. Lewis
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. -- C.s. Lewis
Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures. -- Mother Teresa
People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell. -- Thomas Merton
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. -- Pamela Hansford Johnson
Saints are those who managed to love more than we did. -- Sorin Cerin
Saints Only Live in Heaven -- Richard Stanley Cagan
This is the world of sixty billion dollars saint. -- Toba Beta
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion. -- Victor Hugo
Yes, I do realize. Saint is offering me ... the world. But a world without him is nothing now. -- Katy Evans
You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise. -- Jason Gray
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven. -- Ralph Abernathy
A saint without love is like a star without light. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America. -- Kenneth Rexroth
When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God. -- Oswald Chambers
We too can be saints in our family, in our neighborhood, wherever we live and work. Be a person who listens to what people need, communicating not only to grieve or tell others about your own problems. Listen in order to intercede and help out. -- Pope Francis
Saint or stranger, I still recklessly seek you. -- Alex Dimitrov
St. Soren, Bastard Patron Saint of Manipulation -- Tiffany Reisz
The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ. -- J.c. Ryle
Every Saint belongs to the court of the Queen of All Saints. -- John Eudes
Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord. -- Walter Cradock
Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint. -- Zach Braff
Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less. -- Ronald Rolheiser
A saint abroad, and a devil at home. -- John Bunyan
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education. -- Laurence Housman
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. -- Alexander Pope
It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will. -- W. H. Auden
I understood this man was a Saint," he said.
"Something even rarer," said Dr. Urbino, "An atheistic saint. But those are matters for God to decide. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
None of us are saints. -- Albert Fish
All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly. -- Saint Francis De Sales
I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
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
The saint maintains his piety through the graphic imagination of other people's vices. We thank him for it. The saint's impossible perfection allows us to go on being gargoyles while keeping our faith alive. We admire him for it. The saint's silence covers far more than our interpretations of it. -- Ranjit Hoskote
It is the mark of a true saint that his sorrows remind him of his sins, and his sorrow for sin drives him to his God. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will. -- Phyllis Mcginley
To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone. -- Pope Francis
Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint. -- Martin Luther
What does it mean to be a Saint? In the Lord's Church, the members are Latter-day Saints, and they attempt to emulate the Savior, follow His teachings, and receive saving ordinances in order to live in the celestial kingdom with God the Father and our Savior Jesus Christ. -- Quentin L. Cook
The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven. -- Phyllis Mcginley
Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints. -- Pope Clement I
But there is nothing which one saint was, that you may not be. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God has great plans for you today ... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan. -- Mark Hart
It's easier to be a saint for fifteen minutes than an hour -- Karen Salmansohn
I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. -- Therese Of Lisieux
The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint. -- Chris Matthews
