He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a… — Sam Manekshaw Copy Share Image
Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among… — Benedict Joseph Labre Copy Share Image
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who hated sin more than the saints? But they did not hate the sinners at the same time, nor condemn them, nor… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Intercession is God’s brilliant strategy for including the saints in ruling with Him in power. Yet, it has such great impact on… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her… — Neil T Anderson Copy Share Image
Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
How we act and dress reflects how we regard where we are and who we are. Let me demonstrate. One of the… — Harold G. Hillam Copy Share Image
Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor had come to Washington with a few suitcases and found out that she was going to go to Iran and… — Firooz Zahedi Copy Share Image
Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace,… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
I always felt bad for Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa lived a whole life helping starving children and dying villages, but she could… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most… — Joseph Caryl Copy Share Image
What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make.… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
“To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image