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William Shakespeare quote: "Saint Hellion is the awesomest band the world doth know."
Saint Hellion is the awesomest band the world doth know. William Shakespeare
Saint Augustine? insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity. Karen Armstrong
Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society. Aung San Suu Kyi
George Eliot quote: "Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as..."
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. George Eliot
George Orwell quote: "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved..."
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. George Orwell
Alan Watts quote: "Saints need sinners."
Saints need sinners. Alan Watts
Anne Sexton quote: "Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. Anne Sexton
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited."
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce
Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. Oswald Chambers
I got a letter from a sappy woman a while back - she knew I was sappy too, which is to say a lifelong Democrat. She was pregnant, and she wanted to know if I thought it was a mistake to bring a little baby into a world as troubled as this one is. And I replied, what made being alive almost worthwhile for me was the saints I met. They could be almost anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently and honorably in societies which were so often obscene. Perhaps many of us here,... Kurt Vonnegut
And naturally I was reading in the library a few days later from a book about the Indian saint Sri Ramakrishna, and I stumbled upon a story about a seeker who once came to see the great master and admitted to him that she feared she was not a good enough devotee, feared that she did not love God enough. And the saint said, "Is there nothing you love?" The woman admitted that she adored her young nephew more than anything else on earth. The saint said, "There, then. He is your Krishna, your... Elizabeth Gilbert
A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint. Edward James Olmos
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter. Charles Spurgeon
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
She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint.... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. Flannery O'Connor

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