I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away. They give shelter to whoever cares… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes;… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“I recently heard a story of a little Catholic girl who loved to turn her attention every Sunday to the massive stained… — Eric Gimour Copy Share Image
Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“ A saint is not to take the initiative toward self-realization, but toward knowing Jesus Christ. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Her hand fluttered over her heart. "Did you just say the word shopping without flinching?" "I did. So?" "So, that's gotta be… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Great creators like Yves Saint Laurent or Jimmi Hendrix; they are people who are so smart and so sensitive. They have such… — Jalil Lespert Copy Share Image
The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
Jesus is the mediator of justice; Mary obtains for us grace; for, as St. Bernard, St. Bonaventure, St. Bernardine of Siena, St.… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“Funny though. If he finds a way to make a morally just cause heard, he becomes a saint...His worst enemy is himself.… — Jenni Kosarin Copy Share Image
In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good… — Solomon Schechter Copy Share Image
I never abandoned Yves Saint Laurent. I used to have lunch with him twice a week. I also saw him every Saturday.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese,… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
The bad boy image is something given to me by the media. I have been in relationships earlier, even for as long… — Yuvraj Singh Copy Share Image
One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists,… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
It does not matter the circumstances, trials, or challenges that might surround us; an understanding of the doctrine of Christ and His… — Benjamin De Hoyos Copy Share Image
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It is no small advantage to the holy life, to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their… — Thomas Case Copy Share Image
Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Perhaps the first photograph ever taken, Niépce's view of the rooftops over Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, was a truly pure photograph. The second one he… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Today it is not alive. What, then, is this experience of humanism? With the above survey I have tried to show you… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never… — Eva Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
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