Quotes with saints

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  • John Boyle O'Reilly ''You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?'' Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night - I changed the lock!
    John Boyle O'Reilly
    Irish poet, journalist, author and activist (1844 - 1890)
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  • Abigail Van Buren A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • B. W. Powe Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
    Source: Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Patterns, Seeds, Cloaking, Soul Circling, p. 86
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Annie Besant For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard God 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.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Anita Brookner Great writers are the saints for the godless.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Anne Rice I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Margaret Atwood If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • Brigham Young Is there war in our religion? No; neither war nor bloodshed. Yet our enemies cry out bloodshed, and oh, what dreadful men these Mormons are, and those Danites! how they slay and kill! Such is all nonsense and folly in the extreme. The wicked slay the wicked, and they will lay it on the Saints.
    Source: Danites Journal of Discourses, 12:30 (Apr. 7 1867)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Anne Hutchinson Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Eva Le Gallienne People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
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  • Evelyn Waugh Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Saints are sinners who kept on going.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Anne Sexton Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Alan Watts Saints need sinners.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • George Orwell Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ava Gardner Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]
    Ava Gardner
    American film actress (1922 - 1990)
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