Quotes about saint
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“Oh come, please come, to the Poor Mouth Fair
Where the Saints kneel round in their underwear
And say out prayers that most need saying
For needful sinners who've forgotten praying;
And in every alcove and niche you spy
The living dead who envy the long since gone
Who never wished to die.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)

Envy, Dead

“So unaffected, so compos'd a mind;
So firm, yet soft; so strong, yet so refin'd;
Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd;
The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

"Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet" (1730).

Strong

“The mothers of all ages are those who have suffered because others suffered; for each of them, self is less sensitive than the sense of her child. Self is not locked up in the maternal heart, there to be cherished, as it is by the egoist, or to be crushed and silenced, as it is by the Saint. In the mother, self is not lost, but loses all its evil by the passionate personal love that distributes it among sons and daughters. Perfect self-less love would perhaps be distributed through the multitude, but a mother is not perfect: nature has so much use for her—separate, family use—that she cannot let her go free from irrational, indispensable partialities and limitings, even injustices, all serving the turn of the race.”

Alice Meynell (1847–1922) English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist

Source: Mary, the Mother of Jesus: An Essay (1912), Ch. IV. "The Mother", p. 40

Love, Age, Making love, Family

“We hallucinate sounds more often than sights. There are auditory mirages, which vanish without trace; auditory illusions that turn out to be something other than they seemed; and, of course, voices that speak to saints, seers, and psychotics, telling them how to act and what to believe.”

Diane Ackerman book A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 4 “Hearing” (p. 180)

“Study in one school of psychology came to what seemed a terrible conclusion. It was the school of Lombroso in Italy. He declared, and many others followed him, that the visions of the prophets, of the saints, of the seers, all their testimony to the existence of superphysical worlds, were the products of disordered brains, of diseased or over-strained nervous apparatus. He went further, and he declared that the manifestation known as genius was closely allied to insanity, that the brain of the genius and the brain of the madman were akin, until the phrase "genius is allied to madness," became the stock axiom of that school.”

Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

Source: Essays and Addresses, Vol. III- Evolution and Occultism (1913)

World, Disease, School, Study

“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.”

Théodore Guérin (1798–1856) Catholic saint and nun from France

Letter to Sisters at Saint Mary's, 1848.

Forgetting

“If you like to be saint of God, then desire not the things of this world or the next. Empty yourself for God. Turn your face to Him so that He may turn to you and make you His saint.”

Ibrahim ibn Adham (718–776) ascetic Sufi saint

p. 26

God, World, Making love

“The saint is the man who acts as if he had died and returned to life; having already ceased to be "himself" in the earthly sense, he has no intention whatever of returning to that dream, but maintains himself in a kind of wakefulness, which the world with its narrowness and impurities cannot understand.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

[2006, Gnosis: Divine Wisdom, World Wisdom, 116-117, 978-1-933316-18-5]
Spiritual path, Holiness

Life, World, Dreams, Understanding

“Detachment from everything is avbsolutely necessary for the saint's unification with God. The meaning of detachment is that one should be detached outwardly from accidents, and inwardly from compensation.”

Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi Sufi Maturidi scholar and Hanafi jurist

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 83

God

“When we walk away from communion with the Church, what are we saying to the Jesus Who entrusted His words and His sacraments to her bishops and saints? Has His promise to be with His Church to the end of the world ceased to be true? Can He Who is The Truth be entangled in a tissue of lies?”

Liam Cary (1947) Fifth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baker

The Dark Sea of Scandal https://www.dioceseofbaker.org/documents/2019/2/100718.pdf (October 7, 2018)

Truth, World

“When a devil, but also a saint, laughs about your poetry, you laugh about his ignorance!”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.

“The cosmic consciousness is linked with your soul or with one tapped in their intuitive abilities. All the geniuses can be classified into this last stage of the mind and only few people have achieved that experience of the highest type of intelligence. Some we call gods, prophets, saints and others are called geniuses.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God, People, Soul, Intelligence

“Waste of Blood, and waste of Tears
Waste of youth's most precious years,
Waste of ways the saints have trod,
Waste of Glory, waste of God,
War!”

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (1883–1929) British saint

Source: from Waste, in More Rough Rhymes of a Padre (1919)

God, War, Youth, Way

“We are all human beings, the best of us a saint, but never a god. We can follow a saint's conduct and imitate his behavior, but it is unnecessary to worship him.”

Cheng Yen (1937) Taiwanese Buddhist nun

Source: Master of Love and Mercy: Cheng Yen, p. 7

God, Behavior

“The saint enjoys real attachment to God when he experiences states of contentment and satisfaction.”

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1235) Indian Sufi

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 263

God

“Follow the path of the saints, they left their comfort zones to serve the people of God, sharing with them the Word of God which heals and gives life.”

Filipe Neri Ferrão (1953) seventh Roman Catholic Patriarch of the East Indies

Source: Biblical Year in Goa, impetus for Christian proclamation and mission http://fides.org/en/news/69135-ASIA_INDIA_Biblical_Year_in_Goa_impetus_for_Christian_proclamation_and_mission (30 November 2020)

Life, God, People

“When it rains, guess it pours—yes, it does
Wish there wasn't any pain, but I can't pretend there ain't
I ain't placin' any blame
I ain't pointin' fingers, Heaven knows I've never been a saint”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Going Through Changes"
2010s, Recovery (2010)

Pain

“Pray for all the saints. Pray also for kings, and potentates, and princes, and for those that persecute and hate you, and for the enemies of the cross, that your fruit may be manifest to all, and that ye may be perfect in Him.”

Polycarp Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

Hate, Perfection

“I only appear selfish to a saint.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Appearance, Selfishness

“To want good things even for the wicked is a characteristic of saints.”

Guigo I (1083–1136) Cartusian monk

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The Meditations of Guigo I, Prior of the Charterhouse

“I am the Proof of God for the created beings and I am a proof for the saints (awliya) of my time.”

Sahl al-Tustari (818–896) arabian Sufi, Islamic theologian

Sufism: The Formative Period, p. 38

God, Time

“Contempt for women is inscribed in the works of Saint Paul.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) Dutch feminist, author

Source: 2010s, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010), Chapter 16, “Seeking God but Finding Allah” (p. 241)

Women

“O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep,
Thou bearest angels to us in the night,
Saints out of heaven with palms. Seen by thy light
Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep;
Love is a pouting child.”

Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer

"Sleep (A Woman Speaks)", line 1, p. 98.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

Love, Angels, Sleep, Light

“When once it is no longer possible to understand how a man gives his life for his country – and the time will come – then all is over with that faith also, and the idea of the Fatherland is dead; and then, perhaps, we shall be envied, as we envy the saints their inward and irresistible strength.”

Ernst Jünger book Storm of Steel

Storm of Steel (1920)

Life, Faith, Idea, Understanding

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Quotes about saint
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