"Saintlike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... believe that one resounding deed of terror and self-immolation for the cause of the people will suffice to overthrow the selfish existing order, and create for the toiling masses a new heaven upon earth. No deeper tragedies have been conceived by Bjoernson than these two, the tragedy of the saintlike Pastor Sang, who believes that the miracle of his wife's restoration to health has at last in very truth been wrought by his fervent prayer, and finds only that the ardor of his faith and hers has brought death instead of life to them both,—the tragedy of his son ...
— Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson • William Morton Payne
... truly, but one which is to me irradiated with the love-light which shone in the eyes of "Em's serious, sweet, saintlike face." ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth |
