#saint

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#him #i #man #much #only

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #francis-of-assisi #jesus-shock

When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished the famous office of “Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#beatification #canonisation #deacons #devil #devil-s-advocate

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#antoine-de-saint-exupery #children #philosophy #the-little-prince #children

No man can become a saint in his sleep. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#his #man #saint #sleep

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#madmen #run #saint #worst

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun. ↗