Saint Peter Claver Quotes & Sayings

Stern people dislike rhetoric, and unfortunately it's usually stern people who are in charge: solemn fools who believe that truth is more important than beauty. — Mark Forsyth

I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood. — Dean Koontz

Do not hope to understand the source of my understanding. — Thomas Fitzgerald

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off. — Napoleon Bonaparte

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every financier a dictator, every private employer a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at their mercy, and no public responsibility. And to symbolize this state of things, this defeat of all government, you have set up in New York Harbour a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete this monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of Hell 'All hope abandon, ye who enter here. — George Bernard Shaw

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. — Nikki Haley

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it. — Hugh Blair

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake. — Peter Claver

They say nothing is my fault, and I wish they wouldn't say that. How can a man be forgiven if nothing is his fault? — Miriam Toews

And why would it? Ellie lied to me, because she knew I would come home to be with her. She selflessly gave me up so I could have everything, when the truth is, now I have nothing. — Heather Leigh

We're spirited and spiritual ... and fun follows us around. — Naomi Judd

You are not here to please other people or to live your lives their way. You can only live it your own way and walk your own pathway. You have come [here] to fulfill yourself and express love on the deepest level. You are here to learn and grow ... When you leave the planet ... the only thing you take is your capacity to love! — Louise Hay

People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that. — Rachel Weisz