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People think sainthood is just something that happens to you.

After all, he'd be the last man to qualify for sainthood.

Only a saint could do that, and he was a long way from sainthood.

But he might as well wish for sainthood in heaven.

He has elevated 462 people to sainthood since his election in 1978.

And if you want to put someone on the audit committee, they've got to be up for sainthood.

This movement is being done as part of his cause towards sainthood.

"Not by name, of course, but he told me you might bring up his sainthood.

A second miracle, performed after his death, is needed for sainthood.

The pope has already been put on a fast track to sainthood.

Ma comes the closest to sainthood of anyone in the book.

But even more important, sainthood is for saints, not policy makers.

You could even believe in your own sainthood if you wanted.

No case will be made here for his sainthood.

Investigators must determine whether there is a "cause" for sainthood.

If living with me had been hell while I was waiting, the next two months should have qualified anyone for sainthood.

I think, more than anything he's trying to make himself a candidate for sainthood."

Most causes for sainthood take many decades or even centuries.

In 1966 Casey was proposed as a candidate for sainthood.

What, if anything, do they have to do with sainthood?

Her cause for sainthood is being investigated by the Vatican.

The church does not bother to deny the politics of sainthood, though.

No offense, young lady, but I doubt you've made sainthood yet.

In late 2003, she was beatified, the third step toward possible sainthood.

He too, fell just short of sainthood, I do believe."

A man knows, after all, the effect of saintliness on women.

At the same time, she may be selfish in her saintliness.

This is saintliness of an extraordinary kind, would you not agree?

But there have been some abbots who were elected for their saintliness.

He was widely known for his learning and saintliness.

But saintliness is not within the province of man.

His friends may have been exaggerating the saintliness required for a children's clown.

To it, however, he has brought such religious devotion that a kind of saintliness seems to have descended around him.

I think there are lots of saints, but not so many people who have saintliness."

Following hierarchical authority and saintliness do not always go hand in hand.

No one could doubt that the Colonel had arrived at some kind of saintliness from his ordeal.

I asked him; "sure I have caught none of her saintliness."

The novel tells you that they have brought peace and even saintliness to Siddhartha.

I have friends with patience, fortitude and perhaps saintliness - or is it guilt?

If they're the same, then Gore is better because he doesn't hold himself out as a paragon of political saintliness.

I have rarely, and maybe never, come across saintliness, but I feel certain it cannot exist in such a place.

My own father, stealing under the guise of saintliness!

It's not virtue or saintliness; it's just the way my new brain works.

Sign up for Loki and tune in to saintliness!

Finding a miracle attributable to him has proved more daunting than establishing his saintliness.

To be sure, some who knew Mrs. Roosevelt say she sometimes fell short of saintliness.

I don't have his gift of exuding saintliness as a cover for stupidity.

Sarojini was an ideal Indian mother, noted for her saintliness.

Saintliness was reflected from his face from his early childhood.

HE had always such a reputation for saintliness."

"But does her saintship do you any good?"

They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

Walk steadily in the roads of saintship.

What should I do but paint and put him up Like a gilt god, a saintship in a shrine, For all fools' feast?

At a given moment, he dropped his saintship and appeared as a Christian and the owner of a part of the island of Lanai.

Martyrdom made a saint of Mary Queen of Scots three hundred years ago, and she has hardly lost all of her saintship yet.

On the road to saintship, every bodily or mental manifestation is in itself a sin, even when it is something which ordinary piety would class as a virtue.

His best-known book, Physionomie de saints (1875), which has been translated into English (1903) as Studies in Saintship, does not display his qualities best.

Twice the crown was offered to him which he did twice refuse, saying, "It does not behove a minister to become a monarch; kingship should go to the scion of a royal family, and saintship to the descendant of a saint."

He had made up his mind to see her advance with a measured step and a demure solemnity of countenance; he had felt sure that her face would be mantled with the smile of conscious saintship, or else charged with denunciatory bitterness.

According to historian Michael Winship, Vane's experiences in Massachusetts significantly radicalized his religious views, in which he came to believe that clergy of all types, including Puritan ministers, "were the second beast of Revelations 13:11", "pretending to visible Saintship".

The Blessed One declared: "Women are competent, Ananda, if they retire from household life to the homeless state, under the doctrine and discipline announced by the Tathagata, to attain to thefruit of conversion, to attain to a release from a wearisome repetition of rebirths, to attain to saintship.