“As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our pilgrimage on earth is a school in which God is… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
We're all saints! We all have built into us this intention, the capacities for kindness and creativity and beauty. It's a matter… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing,… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
For me, Yves Saint Laurent is a hero because he fought his whole life against illness. Maybe the only way to fight… — Jalil Lespert Copy Share Image
There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
“He folded back the hem of her housedress. Peeled the wet underpants from her skin and moved them down over her pale… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
The holy men and women, whose lives are told throughout this book, witness to the fact that the word of God is… — Stephen J. Binz Copy Share Image
If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair:… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in His essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True,… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are:… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The saints are like the Lord, but so are all people who keep the commandments of Christ; but those who live according… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
It should be recognized that this Church is not a social club. This is the kingdom of God on the earth. It… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them… — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set,… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
When later he [St. Joseph] carried the Child in his arms, acts of loving faith welled up constantly in his heart. It… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
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