Things Quotes
49655 Things quotes by 15725 unique authors
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The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him…
— Therese of Lisieux
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The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
— Pope Gregory I
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Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in…
— Pope John Paul II
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The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great…
— Josephine Bakhita
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God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and…
— Pope John Paul II
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There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material…
— C.S. Lewis
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Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future.…
— Pope John Paul II
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If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are…
— Odo of Cluny
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We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but…
— Unknown Author
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This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the…
— Pope Paul VI
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Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.
— Unknown Author
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One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in…
— Jeff Cooper
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I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.
— Mark Twain
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It seems that the concealed carry policy now in effect in 30 states is unfair to goblins. They cannot tell who is armed and who…
— Jeff Cooper
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We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and…
— C.S. Lewis
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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or…
— Margaret Mead
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Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.
— James Taylor
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Grief is accepting the reality of what is. That is grief's job and purpose-to allow us to come to terms with the way things really…
— Henry Cloud
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My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. .…
— Roger Rosenblatt
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