Quotes of: Patron-saint Keyword

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

Thomas S. Monson

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

Philip Yancey

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

Kenneth Rexroth

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

Mathias Rust

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Herb Caen

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

Matt Lauer

A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.

David A. Bednar

Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.

David A. Bednar

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

Frederick Buechner

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Gene Robinson

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.

Donald Wuerl

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

Stephen Gardiner

I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

Douglas Feaver

My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.

Claude Nicollier

Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

Claude Nicollier

'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.

Carine Roitfeld

Make peace with yourself, and both heaven and earth will make peace with you.

Isaac of Nineveh

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair

Idries Shah

I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

Eugene Cernan

Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.

Evan Davis