Pamela Hansford Johnson Quotes

I'm not running for canonisation.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

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

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.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.

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.

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.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

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

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem — for purely religious purposes, of course — to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

Shall piety be a license to immoral deeds, and shall religion be regarded as affording the occasion for all riotous extravagance?

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.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

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