85 quotes found
“But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love--but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with an...”
“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but good intentions, of ignorance but devotion, of torment but martyrdo...”
“No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fish.”
“We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will always be that way. Nevertheless, we must let go of our gri...”
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith”
“Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he who walks in love may wander far,Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.”
“Ty, my boy, here's what you tell them. Say it quietly, and sincerely, and like it's the most important thing anyone ever uttered. Tell them, 'Jesus loves you. But I'm his favorite.”
“Life is not a funfair, life is a warfare”
“Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.”
“Because He lives, I can face yesterday.”
“If we don't have time for masterpiece moments, the very reason we came to earth is being wasted on us.”
“Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to do wrong to their own or fellow brethrens.”
“Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians - any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have t...”
“The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the few vital things that make all the difference.”
“We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity in fact our movement is Christian.”
“Religion means to know God and to love Him.”
“Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.”
“The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.”
“Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.”
“The instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul.”
