All are not saints that go to church. [ Proverb ]
The light upon her face
Shines from the windows of another world
Saints only have such faces. [ Longfellow ]
Love rules the camp, the court, the grove,
And men below and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love. [ Scott ]
They are not all saints that use holy water. [ Proverb ]
The healing of the world
Is in its nameless saints. Each separate star
Seems nothing; but a myriad scattered stars
Break up the night, and make it beautiful. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend,
And round his dwelling guardian saints attend. [ Goldsmith ]
Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them,
But in the less, foul profanation. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]
Men would be saints if they loved God as they love women. [ Saint Thomas ]
The saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all. [ Coleridge ]
For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and rant. [ Butler ]
The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones. [ Rev. N. Howe ]
I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Lord, what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth! [ Izaak Walton ]
Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. [ Lord Bacon ]
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints. [ Pascal ]
Liberty, and not theology, is the enthusiasm of the nineteenth century. The very men who would once have been conspicuous saints are now conspicuous revolutionists, for while their heroism and disinterestedness are their own, the direction which these qualities take is determined by the pressure of the age. [ H. W. Lecky ]
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]