Quotes & Sayings About False Saints

You will become what you believe. The truth is, I am what I am today because of what I believed about myself yesterday. And I will be tomorrow what I believe about myself right now — Joel Osteen

We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums. — Owen Wilson

A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases in which he has fallen away from the command. Hence, the saints who for a period of their life lived hypocritically sinned mortally for that period. So also the damned, by persistent false living, sin persistently in Hell. — Jan Hus

DEAD FLIES ON THE SILLS OF sunny windows, weeds along the pathway, the kitchen empty. The house was melancholy, deceiving; it was like a cathedral where, amid the serenity, something is false, the saints are made of florist's wax, the organ has been gutted. — James Salter

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth. — Timothy Noah

Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who wishes to be an angel becomes a beast' (Blaise Pascal). — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness. — Jamie Arpin-Ricci

I really loved Kiyoyori-in the way you people love each other, and we, not so much. I had never felt that before. I should be able to pass away without regret, as easily as the leaf falls from the tree in autumn, but the idea of never seeing him again, in whatever form, fills me with sorrow. I cling to life for his sake. This is what love does to you Shikanoko. See how the false wolf grows more real every day, because it has become attached to you. It shivers at your approach and wags its tail at the sound of your voice. It has made you its master, it lives for your affection. But, as your saints teach and we have always known, attachment enslaves you. Only those free from it see the world as it really is and have power over themselves and all things. — Lian Hearn

The False Gods We Worship," Ensign, June 1976, 3. — The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and "the righteous shall hardly escape." ... So that is an unhallowed principle to say that such and such have transgressed because they have been preyed upon by disease or death, for all flesh is subject to death; and the Savior has said, "judge not, lest ye be judged. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False. — Sathya Sai Baba

When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation. — Rudy Ruettiger