Can't change Quote by Robert Browning Download Open image “Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.” — Robert Browning ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Can't change Love Love vows Mean Mean love Men Nature Priests Subterfuge Vow Youth
“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Mark DeVries observed that the church had become the place where teenagers “are most segregated from the world of adults.”2 Churches had unwittingly cultivated… — Duffy Robbins Copy Share Image
Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.” — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first. — Robert Browning Copy Share
“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save and hold… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“I was ever a fighter, so---one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, and… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Donʹt worry now about what you canʹt change. Rest when you can so youʹll be ready for tomorrowʹs battles — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how. To automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, no, we can't change that. Amending the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change. — Renan Barao Copy Share Image
