Quotes About Saint

Shakespeare si Dostoievski îÈ›i las? în suflet un regret chinuitor: acela de a nu fi sfânt sau criminal. Cele dou? forme ale autodistrugerii

He who is inclined to lust is merciful and tender-hearted; those who are inclined to purity are not so' (Saint John Climacus). It took a saint, neither more nor less, to denounce so distinctly and so vigorously not the lies but the very essence of Christian morality, and indeed of all morality.

The prayers of a wretch I might accept, but no one else's, not even a saint's.

Give me each day strength to perform the present duty and thus to become a hero and a saint.

Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering.

I'm such a Shangela fan. I think she exemplifies 'Drag Race' greatness. She's like the Tiffany 'New York' Pollard of 'Drag Race.' She's like a patron saint of reality TV.

I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature.

A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

Faith, hope, money - only a saint could have the first two without having the third.

Often a heart capable of loving seeks in vain where to bestow its love, and comes forth pure of all earthly passions, perhaps to find a place in heaven. Ah! when God vouchsafes to us on earth that profound, passionate, ineffable sentiment, we must no longer desire or hope for paradise, Juliette; for paradise is the blending of two hearts in a kiss of love. And when we have found it here on earth, what matters it whether it be in the arms of a saint or of one of the damned?

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

Oh –! At least own that you would provoke a saint!' 'I never tried to. You are no saint!

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.

The governor had made up his mind to one thing: Joan was either a witch or a saint, and he meant to find out which it was.

Pfiffikus, whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint.

It is just as little necessary for the saint to be a philosopher as for the philosopher to be a saint; just as it is not necessary for a perfectly beautiful person to be a great sculptor, or for a sculptor to be himself a beautiful person. In general it is a strange demand on a moralist that he should commend no other virtue than that which he himself possesses.

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

I Sanmenoniti erano conosciuti per il loro populismo e i loro metodi rozzi, ispirati a San Menonio, santo che nei quadri è raffigurato con un randello in mano, come il fante di bastoni, ed è noto ai fedeli per aver convertito interi paesi di montagna a mazzate.

Thomas Merton said, "To be a saint means to be myself.

Tony, Tony,come around, something's lost that can't be found.

The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.