Fr Dwight Longenecker Quotes & Sayings

A man without discipline is no better than a dog. A soldier without discipline is no better than a corpse. Worse, in fact. A corpse is no threat to his comrades. — Joe Abercrombie

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out. — Seth Godin

And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work. — Alan Jacobs

What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion. — Tyler Knott Gregson

I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way. — Brett Gardner

Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books ... [The Bible is] the single most important book in my life. — David Ben-Gurion

I played in 'From the Earth to the Moon,' working with Tom Hanks. He is a great guy, very smart. — Tom Verica

This was to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some even greater variation, that she did not pass through those abnormal hours in which one thirsts for something different from what one has, when those people who, through lack of energy or imagination, are unable to generate any motive power in themselves, cry out, as the clock strikes or the postman knocks, in their eagerness for news (even if it be bad news), for some emotion (even that of grief); when the heartstrings, which prosperity has silenced, like a harp laid by, yearn to be plucked and sounded again by some hand, even a brutal hand, even if it shall break them; when the will, which has with such difficulty brought itself to subdue to its impulse, to renounce its right to abandon itself to its own uncontrolled desires, and consequent sufferings, would fain cast its guiding reins into the hands of circumstances, coercive and, it may be, cruel. — Marcel Proust

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills. — Sherwood Anderson

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home. — Sylvia Browne

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention. — Richard John Neuhaus