#saint

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

She was a patron saint of the peripheral. ↗

— Jane Howard

#patron saint #peripheral #saint #she

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#angel #call #go #god #i

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

#argument #came #did #doctor #door

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. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#does #god #makes #more #nothing

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

#definition #goes #i #i wish #me

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#devil #learn #married #much #nothing

But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God he was going to have his say on it to the world. Saints in heaven - how could they be anything but fair and pure? No praise to them. But saints in slime - ah, that was the everlasting wonder! That was what made life worth while. To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud- dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment. ↗

— Jack London

#beauty

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. ↗

— George Santayana

#make #out #saint #than