Quotes with saints

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  • Paul E. Little The Holy Spirit can't save saints or seats. If we don't know any non-Christians, how can we introduce them to the Savior?
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Camille Paglia The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Nathaniel Howe The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
    Nathaniel Howe
    American priest (1764 - 1837)
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  • Pamela Hansford Johnson There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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  • Bruno Dumont There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Beau Willimon This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Beckett We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Ben Zobrist We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Anne Rice We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Wallace Stevens Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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