Definition of Saint

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Definition of Saint

Saint

A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.

One of the blessed in heaven.

One canonized by the church.

To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).

To act or live as a saint.

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Saint Quotations

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Oswald Chambers

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
Charles Spurgeon

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Albert Schweitzer

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Jean-Paul Sartre

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Eric Hoffer

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope

Saint Translations

saint in Dutch is heilige
saint in German is Heiliger
saint in Italian is santa
saint in Latin is sanctus
saint in Spanish is santo

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