#saint

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #saint




Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.


Oscar Wilde


#past

...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...


John Geddes


#blaspheme #love #saint #worship #love

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.


Criss Jami


#funny-but-true #hell #humor #introversion #introvert

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.


Paul Newman


#environment #farmer #inspirational #sainthood #sustainability

There is never but one pleasant side to this human life. Like the globe on which we turn, our own rapid rotation is but one day, and a part of this day cannot receive light, so that the other part will not be delivered into darkness.


Bernardin de Saint-Pierre


#french-novel #paul-and-virginie #paul-et-virginie #life

It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes...


Emil Cioran


#saints #life

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.


Paulo Coelho


#fear #madness #saintliness #surrender #true-love

She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


#love #music #night-flight #regret #love

Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.


Tegan Quin


#sainthood #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #the-ocean

Saints are those who managed to love more than we did.


Sorin Cerin


#love