saint

person

Saints are sinners who kept on going. Robert Louis Stevenson

is one who always has a past just as all sinners have a future.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future. Anton Chekhov

is praised when dead and persecuted when living. This is the way of the world.

The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

is one who mistakenly thinks to save their soul by making life a grave.

Mistaken saints, who thought to save/Their souls, by making life a grave.

is one who ought always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

is sainted for the miracles, not the sermons.

They saint you for the miracles, not the sermons.

's insights stem largely from his experience as a sinner.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.