Saint Quotes - Page 24

• Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." Asserting that character/community is formed, at least in part, by the physical landscape in which he/she resides. And this is underscored by the fact - and not all that long ago - that people and place were, in fact, synonymous: Sapho of Lesbos, for example. Or my middle namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi. Jesus of Nazareth.

  Jack Driscoll

  Jesus, Character, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Through the media, we've establishes this standard of what every human being should look up to: somebody who always looks right; who always has the right light on their face; never has bags under their eyes; never says anything inappropriate. Somebody who always somehow turns out perfect. I hate the fact that celebrities are supposedly a higher class of human being. That's the way I felt growing up, and that's the way I think a lot of people feel. So now that I'm in this position, I want to change things. I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

  Fiona Apple

  Growing Up, Hate, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One major difference between Mormons and evangelicals on the subject of revelation is that Latter-day Saints believe that God has appointed modern-day prophets and apostles to receive revelation for Christ's church. All church members may receive revelation appropriate for their particular callings or positions within the church and their families, but never in contradiction to church doctrine or policy. So Mormonism has both a democratic practice of revelation that would resonate with evangelicals, but also an institutional understanding of revelation foreign to evangelicalism.

  John Turner

  Believe, Understanding, Church

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• When I pick a story, I'm very much aware of the larger issues that it's illuminating. But one of the things that I, as a writer, feel strongly about is that nobody is representative. That's just narrative nonsense. People may be part of a larger story or structure or institution, but they're still people. Making them representative loses sight of that. Which is why a lot of writing about low-income people makes them into saints, perfect in their suffering.

  Katherine Boo

  Writing, People, Perfect

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• I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about the lives of saints. Those were crazy scary stories! Maybe he was trying to scare me into being a good person. In the end, magical realism offers me untethered freedom to explore human frailty and the way we clumsily cobble together our lives on this strange planet.

  Daniel Olivas

  Crazy, Father, Book

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• The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

  Minna Antrim

  Women, Lying, Hypocrite

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• To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Important, Oneself

  "The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters".

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• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  Samuel Beckett

  People, Punctuality, Boast

  Waiting for Godot (1955) act 2

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• Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Foundation, United States

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• My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'

  Annie Besant

  Writing, Character, Two

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Saints And Sinners, Edited, Sinner

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 306

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• Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Christian Living

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• When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

  Naomi Campbell

  Real, Capes, Firsts

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

  Dorothy Day

  Motivational, Success, Want

  "Radical, Pacifist and Catholic: Dorothy Day on the Call to Be Saints" by Julie Leininger Pycior, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.

  Mike Ditka

  Winning, Past, Goal

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• The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

  Robert Duvall

  Catholic, Saws, Mary

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• Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.

  Terry Eagleton

  Christian, Party, Practice

  "Ideas for modern living: virtue" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

  Brett Favre

  Fans, Hours, Grew Up

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• William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

  Kinky Friedman

  Patron

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• My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Political, Statesmen

  "Indira's Coup". The New York Review of Books, September 18, 1975.

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• I'm regarded as the patron saint of manicurists.

  Tippi Hedren

  Patron

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• Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

  Matthew Henry

  Scripture, Astronomers, Written

  "The New Matthew Henry Commentary: The Classic Work with Updated Language".

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• I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Strong, Catholic

  "Damien Hirst: 'I felt the power of art from a very young age'". Interview with Hannah Marriott, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2013.

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• Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

  Eric Hoffer

  Experience, Literature, Sin

  "The Passionate State of Mind".

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Ethos, Sides

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