Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather,… — Roberta Bondi Copy Share Image
One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Today it is not alive. What, then, is this experience of humanism? With the above survey I have tried to show you… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Perhaps the first photograph ever taken, Niépce's view of the rooftops over Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, was a truly pure photograph. The second one he… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never… — Eva Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
It's not always that easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. Sinners can surprise you. And the same is… — Mary Alice Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of… — Gail Buckley Copy Share Image
When I went to England, to Saint Martins, I was traumatized, in a positive way. It was that British sense of transgression… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions. Perhaps this… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Through the media, we've establishes this standard of what every human being should look up to: somebody who always looks right; who… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Those whose primary concern is to destroy others are at the lowest level of development. Those who are only interested in their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
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