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If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.
There's nothing that really motivates me anymore and demands that I get up in the morning. In the past it was Yves Saint Laurent.
There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.
You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return.
I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.
God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.
It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always live
Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit of Him.
No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves
The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.
We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.
A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.
She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
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.
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.
Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.
It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.
Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of 'The Saint.' He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to work with.
I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.
Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will
The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.
At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.
It's kind of weird because 'Saint George' shoots on the exact same lot that 'Justified' did and, actually, the exact same soundstage, too.
I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.