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«Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore Thee, / Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea; / Cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee, / Which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.»
Author: Bishop Heber
(Bishop)
| Keywords:
adore, casting, crowns, evermore, Falling Down, glassy, Holy Crown, saints, seraph, seraphim, seraphs, The Saints
«I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.»
Author: Dylan Thomas
(Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
awfully, buses, busses, cross, dirty, dirty joke, discreditable, horrid, innocence, jokes, know-all, lavatories, lavatory, lunatics, lust, roads, saints, sentences, virgins
«In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.»
Author: Frederick Buechner
(Author)
| About:
God,
Saints
| Keywords:
drops, flirtation, flirtations, handkerchief, handkerchiefs, occasionally, 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»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
aspire, felt, genuinely, human beings, probable, sainthood, saints, temptation
«If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.»
Author: Margaret Atwood
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Catholicism, convert, Mary, saints, The Virgin, the Virgin Mary, Virgin, Virgin Mary
«Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
below, camp, camped, camping, court, grove, In a Grove, saints, The Court, The Grove
«I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, / Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; / That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.»
«I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
All Saints, imagined, miniature, mystic, mystics, poets, prefigure, prefiguring, saints, sought, The Saints, the union, union
«It could only be a record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done again in the never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts, despite personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refus»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
afflictions, assuredly, despite, never-ending, relentless, saints