Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.
Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.
Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ who is our life.
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"
A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.
Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn’t…Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn)
If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!
There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.
Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.
Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last. ” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he’d come a long way and still had a long way to go.
Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.