Bossuet Jacques Quotes & Sayings

"I would like to apologize" may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying "I would like to lose weight" makes you suddenly slimmer. — John Kador

I survived. Isn't that what matters? — Melissa Marr

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God. — Mike Bickle

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important. Every part I play, I work on the backstory. If it's fully written out in the script, or there are intimations of it in the script, fine. If not, fine, no problem. I'll fill it in, or I'll create what it is. — Jeffrey DeMunn

Worship is about something we do. It involves sacrifice. But at the heart of the gospel is this truth, we are called and chosen by God to join in with the dance of the trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. — Tim Hughes

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Every error is truth abused. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor. — Horace Mann

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways. — Vijay Kumar

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating. — Jack LaLanne

The world itself makes us sick of the world. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet. — Honore De Balzac

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The straight path must sometimes be crooked. — Carole Wilkinson

An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

According to the Reformers, each Christian has multiple vocations. We have callings in our work. We have callings in our families. We have callings as citizens in the larger society. And we have callings in the Church. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise. — George R R Martin

I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity
the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Whatever the world looks like now. That's not always how it's going to look. There's more. There's always more. — Patrick Ness

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Rules [10w]
There are no rules
is the hardest rule to follow. — Beryl Dov

Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life. — Ramakrishna