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
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I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
NELSON MANDELA A saint is not a person who does not sin; but a sinner who never stops doing good
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
DOUG HORTON I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSE One breath as a saint is better than an eternal life as a sinner
MEGHNA CHOUDHURY The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinne...
OSCAR WILDE The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinn...
OSCAR WILDE The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.
THOMAS WATSON Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner
ERIC HOFFER Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
ERIC HOFFER Patience of a saint. The mind of a sinner.
ELLA FRANK There is no sinner like a young saint.
APHRA BEHN Saint, noun. A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE Would she could make of me a saint,Or I of her a sinner.
WILLIAM CONGREVE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
OSCAR WILDE God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
GEORGETTE HEYER Every saint had a past, Every sinner has a future.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.
RAY ROMANO Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
UNKNOWN Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
OSCAR WILDE An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
SOPHIE KERR There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a c...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a c...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.
SHRI HAIDAKHAN BABAJI Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
GEORGE HERBERT Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE A young Saint - an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old ...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Most men need patience to die, but a saint who understands what death admits him to should rather ne...
ERIC SEVAREID The greater the sinner, the greater the saint
ENGLISH PROVERB You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV I'm called the saint maker. People say any woman who would marry you would have to be a saint.
JIM GENOVESE I am not a saint; I am a sinner. I want to sin again and
again and again.
S. JAE-JONES SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old c...
AMBROSE BIERCE Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.
GEORGE HERBERT A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simp...
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.”
“Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the d...
MERRIE HASKELL Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
MAX VON SYDOW A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER I decided to forgive you after reading The Little Flowers of Saint Francis,” María began. “You ...
NANCY FARMER I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any mea...
EMMA STONE So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.
RACHEL CAINE There was never a saint with red hair
RUSSIAN PROVERB I hope the Catholics don't get a hold of him and make him a saint. That would make him most miserabl...
MALACHY MCCOURT I am a Count, Not a Saint.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
SADI I don't want a girl who only feels comfortable in either a temple or a discotheque. She has to be bo...
SOHIL ASHVIN SHAH A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.
ELIZABETH KENNY Don't judge me as if you are a saint. Don't look at me as if you haven't sinned.
AGNES ARCILLA Wou'd I were free from this restraint, Or else had hopes to win her; Wou'd she cou'd make me a saint...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the god...
RICHARD BAXTER A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
JONATHAN SWIFT It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.
EZRA POUND Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our pilgrimage on earth is a school in...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Our wound is serious, but the Physician is all-powerful. Does it seem to you so small a mercy that, ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so muc...
A. N. WILSON I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.
CHAD JOHNSON Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
KURT VONNEGUT This could have been me. I'm not a saint. I'm not perfect.
KRISTIANA BENNETT Such a Saint, such an offering.
GEORGE HERBERT The open door tempts a saint.
UNKNOWN A saint belongs to all humanity.
ELIF SHAFAK A saint radiates love for everyone.
SHRI RADHE MAA A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I hope he’s just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Every Latter-day Saint is a feminist by virtue of being a member.
VALERIE HUDSON I pray every day so that John Paul II is made saint. He is a man that changed Poland, changed me, ch...
KATARZYNA MALEC Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardes...
MAHATMA GANDHI All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the P...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Even the kindest saint does have their own adversary
JOSHUA DE VERA BAUTISTA Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
JOHN BUNYAN Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 You go to your saint a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names un...
MELINA MARCHETTA It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
GEORGE SANTAYANA It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine then out of a prig
GEORGE SANTAYANA He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
THOMAS FULLER He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint;
that boasts of it, is a devil.
THOMAS FULLER Of all the sarse that I can call to mind, / England does make the most onpleasant kind: / It's you'r...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL She was a patron saint of the peripheral.
JANE HOWARD Every saint has a bee in his halo
ELBERT HUBBARD Every saint has a bee in his halo.
ELBERT HUBBARD A saint? Tanner Stone was the anti-Christ.
AMY ANDREWS All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The d...
CHRISTOPHER WEST In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an appe...
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CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of e...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of the...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Whatever you may know, you you cannot be truly efficient ministers if you are not "apt to teach." Yo...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass
CHARLES H. SPURGEON God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties
CHARLES H. SPURGEON You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables
CHARLES H. SPURGEON When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon i...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
CHARLES H. SPURGEON You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON He that deserves nothing should be content with anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just tur...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
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