A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious:… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do;… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine… — John Owen Copy Share Image
How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about… — Deacon Jones Copy Share Image
The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly. — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
If you cross Fox News Channel, it's not just me, it's Roger Ailes who will go after youThe person gets what's coming… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Men point to the sad incidents of human life on earth, and they ask "Where is the love of God?" God points… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood. — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of… — Reg Revans Copy Share Image
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and… — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company… — John Owen Copy Share Image
US Cycling is doing a lot now with camps in different towns or different regions, but I think a great place, and… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
