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.
George Orwell

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

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.
Charles Simeon

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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.
Paul Tagliabue

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.
Thomas Becket

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson

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

Saints need sinners.
Alan Watts

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

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.
Thomas Aquinas

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.
Robert Duvall

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

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.
Mary Douglas

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

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

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.
Charles Buck

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

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.
C. Kilmer Myers

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