Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife. — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
I just like streetwear. I've always been a fan of Saint Laurent because I like how their jeans fit on me, but… — Tyga Copy Share Image
Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live.… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." Asserting… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint. — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
How grateful I am That the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints has from its beginnings stood strongly against racism… — Alexander B. Morrison Copy Share Image
“St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes. But no cause is lost if there is still one person devoted to… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
I have never met an old saint who regretted having spent too much time in prayer, but I have met many who… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but… — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane? — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher… — Anne Boleyn Copy Share Image
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all. — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Although I studied at Central Saint Martins, I was always on the outskirts of the ultra-fashionable scene and left the party-going to… — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image