Top 9 Sainthood Quotes - Quoted Daily

Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

Catholic, Sainthood, Confession

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

Lying, Sainthood, Action

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

Gerald R. Ford

Country, Sainthood, World

Gerald R. Ford's speech to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as quoted in "The New York Times", May 4, 1974.

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

Bella Abzug

Men, Views, Sainthood

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Inspirational, Saint, Sainthood

Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Sainthood, World, Today

I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.

Quentin S. Crisp

Perception, Sainthood, Native

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Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

John Osborne

Laughter, Grace, Sainthood

John Osborne, Anthony Creighton, Arnold Wesker, Bernard Kops (1964). “Epitaph for George Dillon”

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.

Anthony Burgess

Memories, Soul, Sainthood

Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books