#sainthood

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#religious #sainthood #inspirational

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#only #sainthood #saints

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

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

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#dogma #heresy #labels #orthodoxy #religion

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

All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine you, body next to another. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#new-love #please-come-back #sainthood #sara-quin #sheets

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#any #anyone #cannot #chief #chief executive

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

#aspire #beings #felt #genuinely #human