What's the difference between god and saint?

God


Definition:

  • (a. & n.) Good.
  • (n.) A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol.
  • (n.) The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah.
  • (n.) A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard.
  • (n.) Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power.
  • (v. t.) To treat as a god; to idolize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
  • (3) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
  • (4) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
  • (5) If you can get through them, then you are considered a god in the world of cold calling.
  • (6) Last night, in a dramatic announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God, Venter said the dream had come true, saying he had created an organism with manmade DNA .
  • (7) The characters in the film realise that the “gods are not coming to save us”, he said.
  • (8) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
  • (9) In 1945 Aneurin Bevan said: ‘We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, and now, we are the builders.’ And my God, how they built.
  • (10) From the moment God speaks to him until he leaves the ark and steps on to dry land, he never says a word.
  • (11) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
  • (12) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
  • (13) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
  • (14) His "Oh God" prayer was actually written after the England team failed in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa but is likely to be useful in all future tournaments as well.
  • (15) OH MY GOD, I just looked it up online,” she wrote.
  • (16) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
  • (17) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (18) In fact, it soon became clear that if there was anything designed to get Tony really riled, it was talk of God.
  • (19) Thank God the heroes of SWAT-team prevented the worst.
  • (20) Expressing the belief that it was important for Christians to engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with atheists, Francis recalled Scalfari had asked him whether God forgave those "who do not believe and do not seek to believe".

Saint


Definition:

  • (n.) A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.
  • (n.) One of the blessed in heaven.
  • (n.) One canonized by the church.
  • (v. t.) To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).
  • (v. i.) To act or live as a saint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (2) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
  • (3) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
  • (4) What punishment will Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain face?
  • (5) Ibrahimovic is available on a free, having departed Paris Saint-Germain after winning four Ligue 1 titles, and has agreed personal terms worth £220,000 a week, making him one of the highest earners in the Premier League .
  • (6) In 1992 he enrolled for an MA at Central Saint Martins.
  • (7) They will be rivalled by Paris Saint-Germain, who had hoped to sign England’s most capped left-back last summer, while the player’s representatives have not ruled out a move to a rival Premier League team.
  • (8) Sonic opens on 18 September at Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent.
  • (9) An epidemiological study of dermatophytes was achieved during the years 1983-1984 in the Mycology Laboratory of Saint-Louis' Hospital.
  • (10) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
  • (11) Their only win in that sequence was the less than convincing 3-2 triumph over Viktoria Plzen , the Group D whipping boys, in Saint Petersburg earlier in the month.
  • (12) This paper present a statistical study on the population of 775 psychiatric emergencies that arrived at the emergency service of Saint-Luc Hospital in Brussels (Belgium), between September 1, 1986 and December 31, 1986.
  • (13) Both Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain are believed to have fallen foul of the FFP rules with sponsorship deals related to each clubs' owners.
  • (14) The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.
  • (15) Case studies of two anorectic women from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, show that for some anorectics self-starvation is encoded in religious idioms and symbols about the body, food, and self.
  • (16) He has set up a "trade and growth" board for Scotland and will soon lead Scotland's "largest ever trade delegation to Brazil", a visit which will take place on St Andrew's Day, the patron saints day beloved by the nationalists.
  • (17) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
  • (18) The Saints reward for the historic win is a divisional playoff in Seattle next weekend.
  • (19) It sealed a deserved three points for the Saints, who had been the better side for most of the contest.
  • (20) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.

Words possibly related to "god"