One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
Ellis PetersTags: religion dogma doctrine labels heresy orthodoxy sainthood stigma
Make a map of what you see,
Direct pain effectively.
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I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart. I want to give directions, helpful hints. What you'll be looking for.
Sara QuinTags: sainthood tegan-and-sara tegan-quin sara-quin floorplan
I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know.
Sara QuinTags: heartbreak sainthood tegan-and-sara tegan-quin sara-quin floorplan
All I said to you, all i did for you, seems so silly to me now.
Tegan QuinTags: love relationships sainthood why-we-read the-cure tegan-and-sara tegan-quin sara-quin
She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint.... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
Flannery O'ConnorYes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn’t like things that were ineffable…
…a lot of people don’t like things that are unearthly, the things of this earth are good enough for them, and they don’t mind telling you so. “If he’d just go out and get a job, like everybody else, then he could be saintly all day long…”
—from “The Temptations of St. Anthony,” by Donald Barthelme
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