Quotes from How to Become a Saint by Jack Bernard
“I can become a saint. Anyone who seriously wants to can. It is God’s will for all believers.”
“Sainthood is no special calling for a few, and it is no watered-down level of expectation. All of us going all the way together to the perfection of God made visible in Jesus. No compromise with other conflicting needs. No settling for a smaller piece of pie."
“The standing we have in Jesus is the incentive to become holy in actual practice…. We are to be built up in the church through other people until we all come to maturity…. It is much more than a legal transaction declaring us holy when we are not.”
"The term 'saint' simply means 'one who is holy.' 'Holy' is a word that is generally categorized as a moral term, meaning righteousness, pure, incorruptible, and having various important virtues. Put more simply, being holy has come to mean being good in a particular religious connotation.
"Actually, the word 'holy' means 'separated' or 'set apart.' In a biblical context, it means set apart from common use and dedicated to God alone... I want to suggest that... what God wants from us is our trust... This is my claim: becoming a saint has more to do with learning to trust God than with learning to be good."
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