saintly behavior Quotes

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.

It's hard to be a saint in the city.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

Government can try to make the world a little better, but can we alter the human condition? No. We can't make saints out of sinners. St. Augustine had something to say about that.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

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

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

… as a rule capitalists and entrepreneurs are not saints excelling in the virtue of self-denial. But neither are their critics saintly.

Personally, I like to start my day off as a Saint and graduate to my Sinner self!

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

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.

All saints are selfish.

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.