#saint

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

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#death #desperation #french-literature #life #paul-et-virginie

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint. ↗

— David Maraniss

#being #human #human being #philosophy #saint

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana. ↗

— Paul Tagliabue

#develop #focus #having #louisiana #model

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#insane #insane people #mainly #people #saints

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#am #back #days #doing #drive

Saints need sinners. ↗

— Alan Watts

#saints #sinners

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#good #got #gotta #i #me