St John Quotes
25 quotes by 21 authors
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What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what…
— Joan Miro
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It is not enough for us to say: "I love God," but I also have to love my neighbor. St. John says that you are…
— Mother Teresa
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Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has…
— Francois Mauriac
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Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our…
— John Donne
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St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a…
— Charles Cumming
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For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we…
— William Tyndale
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I've had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the…
— Bill Shankly
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than…
— Alexander Pope
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Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated. Joy and a…
— Lisa Fugard
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Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which…
— Alfred Noyes
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When we become incorruptible and immortal and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the Lord, gaining fulfillment…
— Gregory Palamas
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Grace comes immediately to meet some of those who strive, giving them assurance of the earnest of their inheritance (cf. Eph. 1:14), letting them taste…
— Gregory Palamas
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Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter…
— Oscar Wilde
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Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and…
— Heinrich Heine
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St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my…
— Eric Milner-White
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the…
— Boris Pasternak
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I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock.…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go…
— Sarah MacLean
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I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John) I had to…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Who Wrote These St John Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 25 St John Quotes as follows: