"The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious."
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"In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history."
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"If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse."
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"I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints."
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"Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating like I was a moment ago - Saint Clancy - those are the people that get into the most egregious kinds of moral problems."
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"I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ."
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"Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God."
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"We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever."
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"Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test"
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"It's hard to be a saint in the city."
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"I am a count, not a saint."
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"I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do."
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"There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day."
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"The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in."
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"The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal."
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"The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors."
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"To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just."
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"If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge."
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"Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints."
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"Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning."
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