169 Quotes About Saints

  • Author Emil Ferris
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    Two weeks ago we learned about the "cephalophore" saints like St. Denis here who carry their own heads... if you love the kind of stuff I do, being Catholic is the way to go... that is... if you can overlook the nuns.

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  • Author Laurence Galian
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    There are many probability axes in Allah's creation. Space, time and probability all have an axis on which it is possible to move. This is why they often refer to the greatest Sufi saints and Sheikhs as Qutubs, Poles, or Axial Centralities of the Universe.

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  • Author Richard Pipes
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    Thus the Bolsheviks who five years earlier in a noisy campaign of blasphemy and ridicule exposed as sham the relics of Orthodox saints, created a holy relic of their own. Unlike the church's saints, whose remains were revealed to be nothing but rags and bones, their god, as befitted the age of science, was composed of alcohol, glycerin, and formalin.

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  • Author Frank Cottrell Boyce
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    There is no patron saint of estate agents because no estate agent has ever become a saint. There have been saints who were sailors, blacksmiths, soldiers, bakers, teachers, housewives, swineherds, kings even. But in the whole of history, not one estate agent ever became a saint or even a blessed. It makes you think.

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  • Author C S Hughes
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    Poetry is the last refuge of saints and scoundrels, and the only place where telling which is which becomes almost impossible.

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