A Quote by Alan Watts

Saints need sinners.

Alan Watts

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Need Saints Sinners

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Alan Watts
English - Philosopher
January 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.

Philip Yancey

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

Peter Kreeft

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Billy Joel

We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.

Ben Zobrist

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

Ezra Taft Benson

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

Anton Chekhov

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

Mother Teresa

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Pauline Phillips

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

Ann Landers

The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.

Hugh Price Hughes

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

Nora Roberts

Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of becoming holy, then you are Christians only in name and not in essence. But without holiness, no one shall see the Lord, that is to say they will not attain eternal blessedness. It is a trustworthy saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners (I Tim. 1:15). But we deceive ourselves if we think that we are saved while remaining sinners. Christ saves those sinners by giving them the means to become saints.