In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
Source: On the Eucharist, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC, 1973.
-- Frederick Buechner, (Jul 11 1926-____), US clergy, novelist; He is the prize-winning writer of psychological novels Long Days of Dying, 1950 and Return of Ansel Gibbs, 1959.