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.
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A saint is not a person who does not sin; but a sinner who never stops doing good
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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...
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Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.
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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.
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A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.
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I decided to forgive you after reading The Little Flowers of Saint Francis,” María began. “You ...
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EMMA STONE
So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.
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There was never a saint with red hair
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I am a Count, Not a Saint.
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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.
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I don't want a girl who only feels comfortable in either a temple or a discotheque. She has to be bo...
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
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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...
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Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the god...
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A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
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It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
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Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
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Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.
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Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not...
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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.
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A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and...
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I hope he’s just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a ...
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Every Latter-day Saint is a feminist by virtue of being a member.
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I pray every day so that John Paul II is made saint. He is a man that changed Poland, changed me, ch...
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardes...
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All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the P...
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Even the kindest saint does have their own adversary
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Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine then out of a prig
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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.
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Of all the sarse that I can call to mind, / England does make the most onpleasant kind: / It's you'r...
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She was a patron saint of the peripheral.
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Every saint has a bee in his halo
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Every saint has a bee in his halo.
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A saint? Tanner Stone was the anti-Christ.
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Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through
CHARLES H. SPURGEON
I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Come boldly, O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, ...
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.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON