This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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.
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion the other by it.
I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington on the relationship between two homeless men.
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham Joseph David and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh blah blah blah I'm wearing Hermes blah blah blah I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need a tribe recognition: 'Ahh my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.