Anthony Mary Claret Quotes

Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering
  • Easy

• So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Christian
  • Silent
  • Agenda

• Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • America
  • Christian
  • Years

• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

  

  Otto Dix
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pain

• It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Christian
  • Season
  • Group

• Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Christian
  • Forgiveness
  • Back

• Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Perfection
  • Judged

• Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Suffering

• You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

  

  Christina Romer
  • People
  • Help
  • Suffering

• Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

  

  Matthieu Ricard
  • Experience
  • True
  • Brain

• Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Hand
  • Suffering

• We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

  

  Artur Davis
  • Words
  • Party
  • Suffering

• I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Christian

• It is important to pray for peace. . . But you must also take actions to make that happen. Every single day.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Action
  • Peace

• No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.

  

  William Lane Craig
  • Christian
  • Darkness
  • Failing

• I'm such a generalist. I love everything. If I had the opportunity, I think I would do about 10 different degrees, five different master's degrees, probably as many Ph.D.s, and you can't do that.

  

  Elise Andrew
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Respect
  • Day
  • Learning

• I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Boy
  • Social
  • Novel

• Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

  

  Anthony Mary Claret
  • Christian
  • Suffering
  • Perfection