Celmins Stones Quotes & Sayings

Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk's life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do. — Thomas Merton

My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road. — James Hetfield

The gift of the Holy Ghost grows with worthiness. If you are baptized when you are eight years old, of course you are a child, and there is much you would not be expected to know. But the Holy Ghost comes to you as you grow and learn and make yourselves worthy. It comes a little at a time as you merit it. And as your life is in harmony, you gradually receive the Holy Ghost in a great measure. — Spencer W. Kimball

Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts. — Mary Balogh

I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny. — Charlyne Yi

If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich , sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design , or at least intelligent design in humans . — Anna Quindlen

There are many more languages than one imagines. And man reveals himself much more often than he wishes. So many things that speak! But there are always so few listeners, so that man, so to speak, only chatters in a void when he engages in confessions. He wastes his truths just as the sun wastes its light. Isn't it too bad that the void has no ears? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting. — Natasha Lyonne

Great is bookishness and the charm of books. — Augustine Birrell

I'm not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I'm alone, but I love being around other people. — Emilia Fox

People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives — Helen Prejean

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion. — Robyn

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days. — Jeff Kinney

But relationship is more than just liking the same board games. — Gina L. Maxwell

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls. — Louise Erdrich