Berva Quotes & Sayings

La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses. — Audrey Hepburn

Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light [-] It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church. — Simone Weil

The word resentment means to re-feel ... to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand." — Norman Vincent Peale

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible. — Marquis De Custine

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. — George Canning