Pastoral Resources

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

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

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.

But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.