CHRISTIAN-SAINTS
We should keep up the name
of “saints,” that the reality of the true religion be not lowered by avoiding
this title; for in these times it is to be feared that the name is out of use,
because holiness itself is out of fashion.
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 49.
Those who are not saints on earth will never be saints in heaven.
The mark of a saint is not
perfection, but consecration. A saint is
not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to
God.
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will
never live as a saint hereafter.