Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne SextonTags: poetry moderation exuberance poem poets saints
The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
Augustine of HippoTags: politics christianity god saints theology
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.
Søren KierkegaardTags: god saints redemption sinners
Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
Ayn RandI'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
Billy JoelTags: laughter sadness virtue saints sin
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Nelson MandelaTags: saints sin sinners atonement
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
George EliotTags: poets saints martyrs sages
Saint Anthony said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company.
Elizabeth GilbertTags: religion saints angels devils
It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes...
Emil M. CioranIt is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.
Karl MarxTags: history saints classics destruction ancient-greece catholic monks catholic-saints heathendom manuscripts
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