Walter Hilton Quotes

Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.

Walter Hilton

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• So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • School
  • Education
  • Religious

• It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Diversity

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • You
  • Blow

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Men
  • Today
  • Doubt

• Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• And all for love, and nothing for reward.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Nothing

• Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Thought

• The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mind
  • Human

• The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Universe

• People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Justice, I think, is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accomodations concretely.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Justice

• 'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

  

  Lewis Carroll

• Molti consigli de le donne sonoMeglio improviso, ch'a pensarvi, usciti.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind.

  

  Jim Inhofe

• What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

  

  Judith Viorst
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Better

• Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.

  

  Frank Whittle

• Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.

  

  Walter Hilton
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Rising