He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
“She wasn't planning on being a saint, right? Why would she? She'd get old and then regret it. What pleasure was there… — Wiesław Myśliwski Copy Share Image
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness;… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not really sure that Diana Vreeland did Yves Saint Laurent a favor, as opposed to the world, by putting that… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Understand two thoughts, and fear them. One says, "You are a saint," the other, "You won't be saved." Both of these thoughts… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Therefore let the Saints be diligent in building the Temple, and all houses which they have been, or shall hereafter be, commanded… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous… — Caesarius of Arles Copy Share Image
I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's comment that "saints always have a past and sinners always have a future," so… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an obvious evolutionary explanation for the scarcity of altruistic saints: Without a strong predilection for their own interests, our ancestors… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
"Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy.… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“The young man could stand it no more. "What is this? I've been ambushed by a night patrol in full daylight! Your… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A Latter-day Saint woman who follows Christ's example in her daily living begins to fulfill the plan of our Heavenly Father for… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
Latter-day Saints are not asked to blindly accept everything they hear. We are encouraged to think and discover truth for ourselves. We… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
