Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

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.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

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.

But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.

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

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

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.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

Saints need sinners.

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

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.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

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