Abbots Quotes & Sayings

Hand off my ass or I'll rip off your balls. — Katie McGarry

Children are easily swayed by religion, which is why it is a good thing that most eventually grow into sense. Chanting monks led the procession, then came children with green boughs, more monks, a group of abbots and bishops, then Steapa and fifty men of the royal guard, who walked immediately in front of Alfred and his guests. — Bernard Cornwell

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. — Patricia Heaton

A dead man's vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being's pride. — Munia Khan

What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz. — Bob Saget

I will change you like a remix, then I'll raise you like a Phoenix — Fall Out Boy

Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington — Otto Perez Molina

...and William said, "O Lord God, we have tried to hear Your voice above the din of other voices. Above the heresy--and even above the orthodoxy. Above the abbots and the masters. Above the knights and even the kings. And though this world is confusing and strange, we believe we have heard Your voice and followed it--followed it here, to this place. Now please, God, hear us. Help us, watch over us, and protect us as we face the flames of hate. Please, God, please. And they all said, "Amen. — Adam Gidwitz

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted. — Walter Scott

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time. — Anson Mount

When you stand between two mirrors you're spread out among the images, your whole soul is pulled out thin, and somewhere in the distant images a dark part of you might get out and come looking for you, if you aren't careful. — Terry Pratchett

A story is told of one of the most revered abbots of fourth-century Egypt, Pachomius the Great, who refused to see his sister Maria when she came to visit him. The explanation was his own urgent need to avoid someone who might entangle him in the bonds of family feeling, and he was even praised for his self-control in being able to forgo the pleasure of her visit. It is not surprising that women sometimes found the self-involvement of male ascetics irritating. — Kate Cooper

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines,
Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines. — Alexander Pope