Nonna Rosa Quotes & Sayings

When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself. — Bryant McGill

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. — James Q. Wilson

Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God ... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them. — Jean Vanier

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops. — Phillips Brooks

Pataphysics will be, above all, the science of the particular, despite the common opinion that the only science is that of the general. Pataphysics will examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the universe supplementary to this one; or, less ambitiously, will describe a universe which can be - and perhaps should be - envisaged in the place of the traditional one. — Alfred Jarry

I find I'm an old soul. — Rachel Roy

You don't obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience. — Bob Sorge

I love everyone. Why? The moment I dislike someone, they own me. They own my energy, thoughts, feelings, etc ... — Sean Stephenson

Jesus was not SELFLESS. He did not live as if ONLY other people counted. He knew his value and worth. He had friends. He asked people to help him. At the same time Jesus was not SELFISH. He did not live as if nobody counted. He gave his life out of love for others. From a place of loving union with his Father, Jesus had a mature, healthy 'true self. — Peter Scazzero

Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves. — Gabriel Fackre

Here you have a hawk of the lure, not of the fist. He will not come to you. If you would have him, you must lay your heart upon your hawking-glove; and feed it to him. — Dorothy Dunnett