Bourdaloue Quotes & Sayings

It would be interesting if Elvis were reincarnated as an Elvis impersonator. — Demetri Martin

If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride. — Louis Bourdaloue

From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up. — Louis Bourdaloue

For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow. — Anonymous

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy? — James Russell Lowell

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. — Wallace Stevens

The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur. — Francis Chan

I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me. — Nora Ephron

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously. — Terry Tempest Williams

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy. — Deborah Day

I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now. — Gary Neville

Wilderness An area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. - Howard Zahniser Perhaps — Eric Blehm

You inability to reconstruct past beliefs will inevitably cause you to underestimate the extent to which you were surprised by past events. — Daniel Kahneman

Jesus is the Word made flesh, and that "knowing Jesus" demands embracing the Jesus of the Bible, not the Jesus of someone's imagination. The whole Bible. Even the places that took my life captive. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one. — Rob Lowe