There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences;… — John Muir Copy Share Image
As the saints of God meet together Jesus still manifests Himself. And seeing Him, there comes to us a new joy and… — Clovis Chappell Copy Share Image
The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in… — Jonathan Edwards 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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We must conclude that, being necessary to God by a necessity which is called "hypothetical", (that is, because God so willed it),… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows,… — Terence McKenna 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
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
... 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
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 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
I knew what Saint Dane was sensing. I knew why he was confused. he thought I was done. He thought we were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think there's a sort of agony with all intelligent and very creative designers that it's only fashion, that in the end… — Suzy Menkes 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
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
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