Quoist Quotes & Sayings

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability. — Confucius

I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces. — Alice Oswald

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite. — Michel Quoist

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games. — Ayelet Waldman

If you want something,but you can't have it for now. Hold it, wait for the time and somehow, someday you'll get a chance that if you really want it you could have it. — Kenneth

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss. — Michel Quoist

If we knew how to listen to God, we should hear him speaking to us, for God does speak. He speaks in his Gospel; he speaks also through life - that new Gospel to which we ourselves add a page each day. — Michel Quoist

I did 'The Frank Skinner Show,' and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen. — Robert Webb

I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes. — Lesley Gore

When you challenge the social conditioning as well as your own understanding of life, you experience liberation. Adopting path of liberation leads to the success. Success blossoms your spirituality as it strengthens the connection with divinity. — Vishwas Chavan

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances. — Michel Quoist

Best men oft are moulded out of faults. — William Shakespeare

What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell. — Reduced Shakespeare Company

Maybe the world had been bad to its great and unusual women. Maybe there wasn't a worthy place for the female hero to live out her golden years, to be celebrated as the men had been celebrated, to take from that celebration what she needed to survive. — Megan Mayhew Bergman

All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself. — Michel Quoist

We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of dollars, more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes. But at the same time, millions of people are struggling to feed their families or put a roof over their heads or find the money to go to a doctor. — Bernie Sanders

Peaseblossom reached down to grab the goblin, and Of the Lathe the Swarf reacted quickly, thrusting his small hands into his pockets and throwing a shower of silvery scraps over the elf. Peaseblossom screamed in pain as he fell from his horse. — Terry Pratchett

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves. — Michel Quoist

Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be. — Michel Quoist

We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine. — Michel Quoist

Comrades - We are living in momentous times. — James Larkin