The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.
We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
Saints need sinners.