Jozef De Veuster (Father Damien) Quotes

I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.

Jozef De Veuster

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• No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Corruption
  • Incidents

• I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Name

• Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.

  

  Yuna
  • Home
  • Comfortable
  • Malaysia

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Charity

• Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Always
  • Rather
  • Whiskey

• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom

• My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Proud
  • Feel
  • Really

• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • School
  • Game
  • Giving

• We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Great
  • See
  • Spectacle

• There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • American
  • History
  • Law

• My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It's 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything's hidden, so you don't see the microwave or the fridge.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • City
  • Kitchen

• Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Home
  • Cooking

• For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

  

  Edwin Way Teale
  • Mind
  • Nature

• The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

  

  Edwin Way Teale

• I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• I keep my hair curly and natural because I really just wanna show who I am.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Hair

• As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

  

  Masanobu Fukuoka
  • World
  • God
  • Nature

• Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Home
  • House
  • Community

• Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • God
  • Nature
  • Man

• I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Real
  • School
  • Jesus

• Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Jesus
  • Listen

• As worship leaders, we have pure motives to serve, but in that wanting to serve, we can forget the One thing that is needed: to sit at the feet of Jesus.

  

  Cory Asbury
  • Jesus
  • Forget
  • Feet

• I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.

  

  Jozef De Veuster
  • Jesus
  • Make
  • Leper