Beads Quote by William Shakespeare

“When belonging to an elite group eclipses the love of God, when I draw life and meaning from any source other than my belovedness,…

— Brennan Manning

“For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a…

— Herman Melville

“For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a…

— Herman Melville

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

— John Vianney

“T is sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels, By blood or ink; 't is sweet to put an end To strife; 't…

— George Gordon Byron

“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is…

— Thomas Brooks

“To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are…

— Gustave Le Bon

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

— Victor Hugo

“With my polished Verses as a trellis of pure metal Studded cunningly with rhymes of crystal, I shall make for your head an immense…

— Charles Baudelaire

“All the flowers of the field, and many of the beasts of the plain, and now the very orbs of heaven, are turned into…

— Charles Spurgeon

“That sacred army, that Christ espoused with his blood, displayed itself in the form of a white rose, but the Angel other, that sees…

— Dante Alighieri

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful.  Beauty is God’s handwriting—a way-side sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every…

— Charles Kingsley