We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes from within our power. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the… — Samuel G. Freedman Copy Share Image
The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life. The gospel of… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Another form of prayer, called cataphatic, honors and reverences images and feelings and goes through them to God. This form of prayer… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of… — Rose Quiello Copy Share Image
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“Come, O Lord, and stir our hearts. Call us back to yourself. Kindle your fire in us.” — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you… — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
