Vigils Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life:…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.
— David Livingstone
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The president and other government officials denounce school violence, yet still advocate for endless undeclared wars abroad and easy abortion at home. U.S. drone strikes…
— Ron Paul
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Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong,…
— St. Catherine of Siena
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Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For…
— John Cassian
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Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
— Johannes Tauler
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O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's…
— John Keats
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The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a…
— Angela Davis
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And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that…
— Franz Kafka
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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would…
— Joe Dunthorne
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Rapture cults had packed their suitcases and were massing together in great vigils, waiting for the end. "All bogus," she'd told Zuzana. "Just a bunch…
— Laini Taylor
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
— Alexander Pope
Who Wrote These Vigils Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Vigils Quotes as follows: