Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
“From this day forward, I vowed to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, not even Chris… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
Moira sacrificed all that she had and all the richness of life that still lay in front of her in order to… — James Smith Copy Share Image
“What are you going to tell her?' 'That I'll do whatever she wants,' my sister says, an extravagant vow for a mortal… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
Singing and acting suit me. I made a vow to myself to do everything that I can do with this life that… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents.… — John Francis Copy Share Image
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
I would like to think that monogamy works: that once you make that vow, that decision in your life to stay committed,… — Jonathan Silverman Copy Share Image
She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area.… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have… Are you sure?" "Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
[Meryl Streep] just sent me an email, and I was like, "That's perfect." She was like, "Yes, Viola, now that you've just… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person.… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
With his fantastic mane of multicoloured hair, Phury should have been in Hollywood's league with the ladies, but he'd stuck with his… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image