Monial Quotes & Sayings

the seventeenth-century saint, Margaret Marie Alacoque, a French nun of Parayle-Monial, who founded the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Margaret would deliberately eat cheese knowing that it made her vomit, and by her own admission she ate the vomit of sister nuns. — John Cornwell

He expelled a long breath, smiled slightly as if in memory. I heard them in their room. She said she was a bit tired, and he said that perhaps it was time to see what came next. — Meljean Brook

Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they'd yet encountered. Cold to crack the stones. To take your life. He held the boy shivering against him and counted each frail breath in the blackness. — Cormac McCarthy

If you don't accept there is a problem, then it is hard to debate things. — Johann Lamont

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can. — Ian McKellen

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. — Judith M Bardwick

There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate. — Frederick Lenz