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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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Thomas Aquinas |
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By the tits of Holy Agnes
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Hilary Mantel |
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Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Yet I have to wonder if I have lost the song because I have become the song. If I have lost my Lord because I do indeed desire to be what I will become. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.
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black-blood
saint
maya
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sita
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Christopher Pike |
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Sinner' and 'saint' are waves of differing size and magnitude on the surface of the same sea. Each is a natural outcome of forces in the universe; each is governed by time and causation. Nobody is utterly lost, and nobody need despair.
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sinner
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David James Duncan |
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"Father Nicanor was against a religious ceremony and burial in consecrated ground. Ursula stood up to him. "In a way that neither you nor I can understand, that man was a saint,"
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gabriel-garcía-márquez
saint
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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St George!' the English shouted, but the saint must have been sleeping for he gave the attackers no help.
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st-george
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Bernard Cornwell |