Quoist Michel Quotes & Sayings

Anybody want some ... toast? — Jaya

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

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told. — Harpo Marx

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

Relationships are more important than life,but it is important for those relationships to have life in them — Swami Vivekananda

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

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

Last week,he had become so enraged with a visiting scientist who had shown him undue pity that Kholer clambered to his feet and threw a clipboard at the man's head. — Dan Brown

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

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness. — Baltasar Gracian

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

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

A modern person has no energy to love any other time than his own. — Torgny Lindgren

You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem. — Debasish Mridha

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