May Quote by Ellis Peters Download Open image “Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired” — Ellis Peters ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Pleasure Retrospect Saint
You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“ A saint is not to take the initiative toward self-realization, but toward knowing Jesus Christ. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that his circumstances simply happen at random, nor does he ever think of his life as being divided into the secular and the sacred. He sees every situation in which he finds himself as the means of obtaining a… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“... there are as holy persons outside orders as ever there are in, and not to trifle with truth, as good men out of… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254” — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“When I want to hear my echo,” said Brother Cadfael, “I will at least speak first.” — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it?… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
