Frank Langella Quotes

I'm far from a saint.

I'm no saint.

Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.

I'm not running for canonisation.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

I'm so not perfect.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

My aim is just to remain as humble and as godly as I can be.

No, I'm not perfect in any way.

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

Even at our height, we were never very polished.

I am not a perfect saint, by any means.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

The straight line is ungodly.

What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

I'm no superman.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.