#saints

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I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.


Robert Runcie


#cook #gave #i #numbered #people

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

Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion of saints.' They are still our brothers and sisters in Christ. When we celebrate the Eucharist they are there with us, along with the angels and archangels. Why then should we not pray for and with them? The reason the Reformers and their successors did their best to outlaw praying for the dead was because that had been so bound up with the notion of purgatory and the need to get people out of it as soon as possible. Once we rule out purgatory, I see no reason why we should not pray for and with the dead and every reason why we should - not that they will get out of purgatory but that they will be refreshed and filled with God's joy and peace. Love passes into prayer; we still love them; why not hold them, in that love, before God?


N.T. Wright


#communion-of-saints #paradise #prayer #praying-for-the-dead #purgatory

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.


Lois McMaster Bujold


#religion #saints #religion

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.


Walter Scott


#below #camp #court #grove #heaven

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.


Charles Simeon


#man #measure #resemble #saints #scripture

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.


Joseph Smith, Jr.


#ascend #church #descend #devils #doors

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.


Charles Stanley


#before #believers #came #contain #david

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.


Channing Tatum


#action movies #be happy #better #did #first

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.


Oliver Wendell Holmes


#saints #spirit #spiritual-life #unregenerate #worth