Saint Quotes - Page 26

• The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Heart, Blessing, Differences

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• [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Angel, Son, Men

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.9, Penguin

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• And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Devil, Naked

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he’d come a long way and still had a long way to go.

  John Irving

  Clouds, Long, Safe

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• blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

  Lucille Clifton

  Eye, Kissing, Blessing

  Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Equality, Sinner

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• In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

  Anne Rice

  Chapel

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• I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

  Meg Rosoff

  Waste, Effects, Has Beens

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• The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Cities, City Of God

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• The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor than was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe or outside, lost.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Lying, Tunnels, Light

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• Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.

  Clive Barker

  Pride, Eight, Class

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• Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Arrows

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

  Truman Capote

  Drinking, Alcohol, Drug

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.273, Vintage

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• Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Hurt, Children, Growing Up

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.65, Convergent Books

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• EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

  Thornton Wilder

  Doe, Realize Life, Realizing

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• Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Fall, Fog, Hands

  Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.79, Infobase Publishing

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• Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Clothes, Judging, Heaven

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• Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

  Ted Dekker

  Baby, Black And White, Circles

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• I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

  Margaret Atwood

  Coward, Cripples, Wounds

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

  George Eliot

  Sage, Poet, Maggie

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6043, Delphi Classics

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• Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Hero, Desire, Together

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Joy, Humanity, Littles

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• Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.

  Gregory Maguire

  Beautiful, Blessed, Lucky

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• I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.

  Isabel Allende

  Believe, Aunt, Worst Enemy

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

  George Orwell

  Alcohol, Doubt, Humans

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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