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There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.

There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.
– Lon Bloy

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  1. The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done. – Lon Bloy
  2. Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence. – Lon Bloy
  3. Léon Bloy wrote: ‘Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint – Peter Kreeft
  4. He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. – Sheldon B Kopp
  5. No human being really has any misery. It is your own mistake if you complain of the misery. – Dada Bhagwan
  6. Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery? – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  7. I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us. – Arthur Golden
  8. Saints preserve us,’ Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen’s shoulder. ‘What have we done to our youth? – Jessica Day George
  9. What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners. – Nadia BolzWeber
  10. Saints guide people on the path of religion [dharma] and the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants -˜liberation’ (moksha). – Dada Bhagwan
  11. The saints have to -˜drink poison’ (worldly suffering) and the world has to -˜drink nectar’ (worldly pleasures). Because people are weak. – Dada Bhagwan
  12. They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints. – Alison Weir
  13. I’ve lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,’ I said. ‘Actors and musicians-they’re saints to me. – Anne Rice
  14. A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident. – TS Eliot
  15. Cupid and Bacchus my saints are,May drink and love still reign,With wine I wash away my cares,And then to cunt again. – John Wilmot
  16. Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them. – Radhe Maa
  17. Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these. – Tanith Lee
  18. The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them – Radhe Maa
  19. I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. – Billy Joel
  20. Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. – Joseph Joubert
  21. I admit, that the brain does not govern the body as well as one might wish- else all men would be saints and hell would be empty of lechers. – Meredith Duran
  22. Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don’t come to saints. – Lynn Cullen
  23. The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him. – Victor Hugo
  24. Be patient, you are in good company. Our Lord Himself, our Lady, the apostles, and countless saints, both men and women, have been poor. – Francis de Sales
  25. Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were -œwheelchair- saints. May God give you grace to -œtriumph in affliction. – Billy Graham
  26. The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  27. The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. – Abigail Van Buren
  28. There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. – Glen Cook
  29. Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists. – Julio Cortzar
  30. …you belong here, and it’s time you realize it. No one put a Scarlet A on your chest. This church is for human beings, not saints and angels. – Tiffany Reisz
  31. Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it. – Idries Shah
  32. The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture. – Stanley Hauerwas
  33. Mother and wife are saints,If they are not together – A G Maran
  34. Mother are wife are saints, If they are not together – A G Maran
  35. Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  36. Except the Christ be born again tonightIn dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,The world will never see his kingdom bright. – Vachel Lindsay
  37. We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win? – Muriel Rukeyser
  38. Beauty is like the storm. Beauty has its natural motions. A calmness of spirit signals its arrival. Its departure is marked by misery. – Anuradha Bhattacharyya
  39. all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire. – Swami Vivekananda
  40. A closed heart only creates misery and sadness. An open heart creates love and happiness. – GEF Neilson

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