Aquinas Academy Quotes & Sayings

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks. — Jennifer Shahade

A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied. — Jack Kornfield

If I'm doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I also don't believe in being a preacher. If you have a point, that's a bonus. But the funny has to come first; otherwise, you shouldn't call yourself a comedian. — Trevor Noah

Commitment to an idea that has the power to transform you personally in any way is a vision worth nurturing. The bottom line is,you need to remain committed to a vision long enough to see it vome to fruition. — Caroline Myss

I would give everything if I could only keep my family. — Johnny Depp

By whipping himself he protected himself against whipping by someone else. — John Steinbeck

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country. — Thomas Jefferson

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have. — Marty Rubin

Everyone hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow. — Seneca.

Everything was new once, after all. — Neil Gaiman

He tastes of rice with a touch of saffron. He says I taste of seafood. I guess we'd make a good paella. — Chloe Thurlow

In THE INHERITANCE readers will see the dangers associated with counterfeit spiritual experience; but they'll also see the beauty of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and what it means to walk in His resurrection power, which is the inheritance of all believers. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is genuine, which means authentic and real. Occult power is counterfeit, which is best defined as 'made in imitation of something else with intent to deceive'. — Brian Williams

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven. — William S. Burroughs

The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well. — Dan Jenkins

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. — Mervyn Peake