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

• The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Christian
  • Redemption

• 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

• Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Up
  • God
  • Giving

• I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Suffering
  • Disappointments
  • Malancholy

• True visionaries are never lukewarm.

  

  George Barna
  • Visionaries
  • Lukewarm

• Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Darkness
  • Poet
  • Judgment

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

  

  Anthony Mary Claret
  • Christian
  • Suffering
  • Perfection