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“RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, short-ribs of the saints, the ears of Balaam's ass, the lung of the cock that called Peter to repentance and so forth. Reliquaries are commonly of metal, and provided with a lock to prevent the contents from coming out and performing miracles at unseasonable times. A feather from the wing of the Angel of the Annunciation once escaped during a sermon in Saint Peter's and so tickled the noses of the congregation that they woke and sneezed with great vehemence three times each. It is related in the "Gesta Sanctorum" that a sacristan in the Canterbury cathedral surprised the head of Saint Dennis in the library. Reprimanded by its stern custodian, it explained that it was seeking a body of doctrine. This unseemly levity so raged the diocesan that the offender was publicly anathematized, thrown into the Stour and replaced by another head of Saint Dennis, brought from Rome.”
Ambrose Bierce
“What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning," and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.”
Mathew Henry
“It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine then out of a prig”
George Santayana
“A little saint best fits a little shrine, / A little prop best fits a little vine, / As my small cruse best fits my little wine.”
Robert Herrick
“The Lord's Saints are immaculately pure; they are beyond pleasure and pain, beyond greed and attachment”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“If the Saints call, naturally I will consider taking their request to the Board of Supervisors. Because they're our Saints, too, and we're all in this together. But obviously, I couldn't do anything without board action.”
Skip Bertman
“In old times elders used to tell the young children ,all about the nation's great heroes and saints. Where are such elders today?”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.”
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