Saint Philip Quotes & Sayings

Who is the other woman whose photograph I do not have? If my mother was the first in my life, she was the last: my lover and my downfall, my hope and my despair. Her photographs I burned in an ashtray, one at a time - some might say to be rid of the evidence. Her name was Theresa Aden: Theresa like the saint; Aden like Eden, complete with snake. — Philip Sington

I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD ... Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not. — Philip K. Dick

The great thing is to become Saints. — Philip Neri

I think the reality-show format is brilliant, has endless possibilities. It's documentary! But unfortunately, it's rarely executed well. So it becomes just a scripted show, but without actors. — Justin Kirk

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them. — Philip Neri

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. — Philip Neri

I remember something the Buddha said after he witnessed a supposed saint walk on water: 'For a penny,' the Buddha said, 'I can board a ferry and do that.' It was more practical, even for the Buddha, to cross the water normally. The normal and the supranormal were not antagonistic realms, after all. — Philip K. Dick

at last is r bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was s taken out of Man." [9] — Anonymous

The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us. — Philip Neri

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth. — Julian Assange

Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience. — Philip Neri

When you start running from trouble? It confers with the devil on how to find you twice as fast. — Dorothea Benton Frank

No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted. — Philip Zaleski

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear — E.F. Schumacher

Even locked doors can be unlocked in time. — Joanna Gaines