Saint Bernard Quotes
Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
Quotes to Explore
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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This is a work that cannot be completed except by a society of men of letters and skilled workmen, each working separately on his own part, but all bound together solely by their zeal for the best interests of the human race and a feeling of mutual good will.
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One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing - being a data bank - and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.
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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today’s shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.
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Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
