It’s easy to be a saint when all you’ve known is the good.

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

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

He lived like a devil and died like a saint

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.

One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

I claim there ain’t Another Saint As great as Valentine.

Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence, perhaps even contempt. But they’re mistaken, and that makes them furious....

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad saint, hating Satan’s pissing on the roof.

For as long as I could remember, other people had either overshadowed me or left me out in the open, alone. But Mac, as Layla had said all those weeks ago, was always somewhere nearby....

When a saint is lowered in darkness of the grave, then he is in light

There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love.

Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he...

To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.

Nobody is either honest or dishonest. Life is a gradient, and a saint might be an 8.7, and a dirtbag politician might be a 1.2. Interestingly, piss and shit are numerically represented by 1 and...

Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

Sinner’ and ‘saint’ are waves of differing size and magnitude on the surface of the same sea. Each is a natural outcome of forces in the universe; each is governed by time and causation. Nobody...

For a Siddhar yogi, time is precious. It is important to utilize every moment to evolve into ever higher states of consciousness. We understand stagnancy as decay and for growth, we constantly discard the old...

Character isn’t all about becoming a saint or perfect. No one is perfect! There are areas we all are working on to improve and fine tune..

I had a dream about you. You made phone books for a living, and I filled up your pages by impregnating as many women as possible. You said I was a living saint, and I...

…I put you on the pedestal – made you a saint – dare I blaspheme?…

Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so...

How do I recognize a real saint? Whom I shall see within me whether it is in dreams or trances or meditations, He will be the Saint to me. Because God is the only Saint...

Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is conquered by the fire of His gaze, no sacrifice seems too great to...

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

I’m hardly a saint.

We need saints without cassocks, without veils – we need saints with jeans and tennis shoes. We need saints that go to the movies that listen to music, that hang out with their friends (…)...

We designate the spirit of the well as ‘she’ because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not invariably. She appears in many guises – ghost, witch, saint, mermaid, fairy, and...