Saints
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Saint is a term used for a various people who are considered holy. The term originates within Christianity as a one which has various definitions varying by denomination. The word itself means “holy” and is derived from the Latin sanctus which was the word used in translating hagios (άγιος meaning “holy” or “holy one”) in early Greek Christian literature and in the New Testament, where it is used to describe the followers of Jesus of Nazareth. This page is for quotes referring to concepts about saints.
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- Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.
- Saint Theodore Guerin (Saint Mother Theodore), Letter to Sisters at Saint Mary's, 1848
- What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
- Leonard Cohen in Beautiful Losers (1966)
- Some say this world of trouble
Is the only one we need
But I’m waiting for that morning
When the new world is revealed.Oh when the saints go marching in,
When the saints go marching in,
Oh lord I want to be in that number,
When the saints go marching in!- One of Louis Armstrong's versions of the traditional funeral march and jazz song "When the Saints Go Marching In"
- Oh, when the saints go marching in
Lord, how I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in.- "When the Saints Go Marching In" (Traditional funeral march and jazz song).
