#saint

There is no sinner like a young saint. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#saint #sinner #young

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#another #dispute #holidays #irish #person

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#only #sainthood #saints

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint. ↗

— Sophie Kerr

#industrious #lazy #much #prefer #saint

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis. ↗

— Maria Monk

#cruel #doubts #entertain #express #francis

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society. ↗

— St. Francis of Assisi

#inspirational #saints #inspirational

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#cook #gave #i #numbered #people

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#life #paul-and-virginie #paul-et-virginie #pessimism #pessimistic

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#contemplate #illuminate #inspirational #saint #shine

Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#humanity #saintliness #schadenfreude #nature