We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss. — Michel Quoist Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Do people think Swedes are cool? I think they think you're cool in spite of you being Swedish. But the good thing… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
We continue to love in spite of the pain, tears & heartbreak. Perhaps the pain makes us stronger, the tear makes us… — Jeanette Copy Share Image
And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In spite of overwhelming grief and terror, I left Westboro in 2012. — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
