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Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sa

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of

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

George Santayana

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Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.

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Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their nat

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

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People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled --

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.

Eva Le Gallienne

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdo

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

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We must have a real living determination to reach holiness.

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God.

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Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is po

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

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The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats a

The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moments.

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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she

Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be su

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

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Saintliness is also a temptation.

Saintliness is also a temptation.

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