Tony Abbott Quotes

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

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

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

I'm hardly a saint.

I thought you had to be humble to become a saint, but a priest told me it takes all kinds to make it to heaven.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

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

I'm no saint.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

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

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.