Books Quote by Roberto Calasso Download Open image “The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.” — Roberto Calasso ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Funny Inspirational Love Respect Saint Successors
“The saint is the apology for the Christian religion. He is holy, however, because he allows Christ to live in him and it is… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“A saint is a person who is reborn from his grave where he was trapped by living in himself. The time has come for… — Woo Myung Copy Share Image
“That it is the saint’s duty, and should be their care, not only to get an established judgment of the truth, but also to… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“despite his betrayal. In my opinion, no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some saintly qualities. You can judge one… — Sierra Rose Copy Share Image
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The eyes of the saint make all beauty holy and the hands of the saint consecrate everything they touch to the glory of God,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“A saint is long past any desire for distinction; he is the only sort of superior man who has never been a superior person.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The saint who satisfies the heart of Jesus will make other saints strong and mature for God.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’m inclined to what Nietzsche called “impure thought,” that is to say, a kind of thought where abstractions are so mixed with the… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.” — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster,… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“They had to stir the churn of the ocean, until the soma floated up, as butter floats from milk. And this task could not… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
