Robert himself is certainly worth knowing--a really attractive union of manliness and saintliness, of shrewd sense and unworldly aims, and withal with that kindness and pity the absence of which so often abates the actual value of those other gifts.
Briefly, Robert Elsmere, a priest of the Anglican Church, marries a very religious woman; there is the perfection of "mutual love"; at length he has doubts about "historic Christianity"; he gives up his orders; carries his learning, his fine intellect, his goodness, nay, his saintliness, into a kind of Unitarianism; the wife becomes more intolerant than ever; there is a long and faithful effort on both sides, eventually successful, on the part of these mentally [66] divided people, to hold together; ending with the hero's death, the genuine piety and resignation of which is the crowning touch in the author's able, learned, and thoroughly sincere apology for Robert Elsmere's position.
Under her purity, and
saintliness, and culture, and ethereal beauty of soul, she was, in things fundamentally human, just like Lizzie Connolly and all Lizzie Connollys.
She reminded me that she had kept house ever since she was "so high" for her uncle the priest: a man well-known for his
saintliness in a large district extending even beyond Pampeluna.
Have you ever had to face someone who is simply incarnate
Saintliness and Disapproval, who--'
And the result was, willy-nilly, that he was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the
saintliness of his character.
But I can almost forgive them, because, as I told you, she is a saint, and a persecution is all that she needs to bring out her
saintliness and make her perfect."
Redgrave makes little effort to disguise her character's displeasure with her current situation - "I haven't been cheerful since 1868, the year of my confirmation" - while Spall suffers each barrage of barbs with wearisome sighs and a stoicism that verges on
saintliness.
After performing Hajj in 1923, he settled down in the village of ipi, situated between Bannu and Razmak, and gained reputation for his
saintliness. His political agitation against the British rule was spurred by the 'Islam Bibi case' of 1936.
A learned gesture, after seeing so many holy cards and visions of
saintliness, especially of the supplicant Marian variety?
Pope Francis will canonize two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church, declaring Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as models of
saintliness for the faithful today.
"You're a saint" is never followed by "because you've learned the beliefs you previously held did not reflect reality, and you changed your mind." In addition to being a rather awkward compliment, it also does not reflect how we tend to think of
saintliness. Saints tend to be the nicer-than-average people doing nicer-than-average things that can be neatly printed up on prayer cards and stuck to a car visor.