In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children,"… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming,… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Here learn the science of the Saints: All is to be found in the passion of Jesus. Make every effort to remain… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“O.K. he's crazy. But he's a saint too." "He scares me, I don't like him." "He scares me. What the hell-he knows."… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When later he [St. Joseph] carried the Child in his arms, acts of loving faith welled up constantly in his heart. It… — Peter Julian Eymard 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
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
When I pick a story, I'm very much aware of the larger issues that it's illuminating. But one of the things that… — Katherine Boo 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
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
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
“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
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
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
[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
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
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
My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. .… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
![“When later he [St. Joseph] carried the Child in his arms, acts of loving faith welled up constantly in his heart. It was a worship that pleased our Lord more than that which he receives in heaven. Picture to yourself Saint Joseph, adoring the little Child in his arms as his God. He tells of his…” quote by Peter Julian Eymard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/peter-julian-eymard-11275_arms_when-later-he-st-joseph-carried-the-chil_1125715.jpg)
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