“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
“If I could sum up my poetry in a few well-chosen words, the result might be a poem. Several years ago, when… — Anthony Thwaite Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the… — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
The commemoration of Christ's saving Passion is at hand, and the new, great spiritual Passover, which is the reward for dispassion and… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“Let you sing of us all by name, that we may live as long as the song." "All three hundred of you?"… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Jesus wanted to show us his heart as the heart that loved so deeply. For this reason we have this commemoration today,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“In 2004, the Animals in War monument outside Hyde Park in London was created by the English sculptor David Backhouse. The monument… — Anthony J. Nocella II Copy Share Image
“My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even… — J. Neven-Pugh Copy Share Image
I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“She was going to plant a Japanese maple tree on top. She had already procured it, a lovely sapling with pale bark… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. "The Bible says, if eating meat offends… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Great Famine is a period of our history that we need to know in great detail in order to understand its… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad.” — Danny M. Cohen Copy Share Image
“À la mémoire de Mamu, ma grand-mère, Qui m’a laissé au cœur et aux poumons, cette braise ronde de pur amour, Que… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
