Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Let go of me or slow down," she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him. He slowed down. "I swear… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We can use wealth, intelligence, education or health in harmony with our compassionate spiritual nature, or we can use them according to… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Franny Armstrong is a mother of three and a grandmother of four. Her husband supports her imagination and has the patience of… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
Very well, then: why are you attached to any one book, or to the words and ways of one saint when he… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people are the source of governmental power. Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The dangers that exist are real, but only illustrate the fact that men and women need Christ. The suffering and dying of… — David Sills Copy Share Image
The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I… — John Maus Copy Share Image
It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of… — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches… — Rose of Lima Copy Share Image
In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I'm not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don't belong in my personal life. And they… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image