Carotenuto Quotes & Sayings

Our attitudes, our perspectives, our ways of relating to others, our methods of responding to the circumstances of the world around us, our self-image, even our understanding of God have all been shaped by the destructive values and dehumanizing structures of the world's brokenness. — M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

More than ever, Romania now needs to see that a force exists that puts an end to Ponta and Antonescu's abuses and coup d'etat. This force is none other than the Romanian people. — Traian Basescu

19. Before the divine fire is introduced into the substance of the soul and united with it through perfect and complete purgation and purity, its flame, which is the Holy Spirit, wounds the soul by destroying and consuming the imperfections of its bad habits. And this is the work of the Holy Spirit, in which he disposes it for divine union and transformation in God through love. The very fire of love that afterward is united with the soul, glorifying it, is what previously assailed it by purging it, just as the fire that penetrates a log of wood is the same that first makes an assault on the wood, wounding it with the flame, drying it out, and stripping it of its unsightly qualities until it is so disposed that it can be penetrated and transformed into the fire. Spiritual writers call this activity the purgative way. — San Juan De La Cruz

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong ... — James Whistler

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails. — John Masefield

Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories. — Ben Horowitz

Almost all the people who've had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn't but have met them. — W. Somerset Maugham

As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian. — Mike Weir

The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere. — Sloane Crosley

In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite — Flannery O'Connor