God saved us to make us holy, not happy. Some experiences may not contribute to our happiness, but all can be made… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
In God’s great plan, every detail is important, even yours, even my humble little witness, even the hidden witness of those who… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Satan will always work on the Saints of God to undermine their faith in priesthood keys. One way he does it is… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?"… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color… — Carl De Keyzer Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the… — Georges Lemaitre Copy Share Image
I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The Spirit of the Lord says that God is placing a crown of manifestation on the heads of His faithful, diligent, chosen… — Todd Bentley Copy Share Image
I am grateful for the unending hunger to rest in the mind of Buddha, the heart of Krishna, a domain where all… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Today is [the feast of] Santa Rita, Patron Saint of impossible things - but this seems impossible: let us ask of her… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of… — Mikhail Bakunin 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
If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
When the soul by the Holy Spirit comes to know the Mother of God; when in the Holy Spirit the soul becomes… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women?… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think… — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
On that very night, the night of the greatest suffering that has ever taken place in the world or that ever will… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
'My sheep hear My voice' (Jn. 10:14). This is just another way of saying, 'They obey my words and keep My commandments.'… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
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