I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky… — Bert Stern Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Let's talk about that for a moment, about the couple that Yves Saint Laurent and I were. Like all couples we went… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
One form of prayer moves us particularly to take up the task of evangelization and to seek the good of others: it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
[God] wants to teach men and women how to walk together in union and be great-to teach this people how to be… — Erastus Snow Copy Share Image
If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“We designate the spirit of the well as 'she' because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not… — Colin Bord Copy Share Image
In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what our attitude… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I like the Hotel Costes, on rue Saint Honore, a boutique hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and the Tuileries.… — Alice Temperley Copy Share Image
If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their… — Josephine Bakhita Copy Share Image
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If somebody murders somewhere, I have a part in it. Even if I am a sleeper - I was sleeping, I don´t… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again.… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
The problem with Yves Saint Laurent was that he was a man who understood his time period better than anyone, but he… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they… — D. Michael Quinn Copy Share Image
If you learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve him with a wholly pure and detached heart, then… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
"Moksha" is really a satire of myself. I've always been interested in Eastern spirituality. I'm particularly interested in enlightenment and the spiritual… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The Saints are doing a good job adjusting. I think their focus is on trying to make the best of their season,… — Archie Manning Copy Share Image
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God...I figure all any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand." This… — Carlo Borromeo Copy Share Image
You have the patience of a saint," I grumbled, slouching into a chair. "And besides, you don't hang out with him 24/7."… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image