The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . . Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
A saint is simply a human being whose soul has. . . grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.
God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"
Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.
Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.
Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.
Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.