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Ambrose Bierce quotesSaint. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Henry David Thoreau quotesOur manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
Soren Kierkegaard quotesGod creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Victor Hugo quotesA 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.
Mother Teresa quotesWe must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God.
Oscar Wilde quotesIt is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
George Orwell quotesSaints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotesWhat 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.
George Santayana quotesIt is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.