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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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.