Quotes Tagged With :saints

Peter Brown, that great historian of early Christianity, has given the most cogent explanation for the....

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one....

Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because “friends react on one another” and through....

He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God's will.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved....

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful:....

A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.

...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone....