Sergius Of Radonezh Quotes & Sayings

The old woman is talking to herself. In between speaking to us, she's saying things like, A finger for breakfast, a hand for lunch, an ear for dinner, munch, munch, munch! — David Estes

A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a ... turkey ... in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. — Herman Melville

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way. — Joe Hyams

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else. — Gerald Brenan

To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself. — Pope Leo XIII

THE CAUSE of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true. — Ulysses S. Grant

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does. — Confucius

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises. — Stanley Schmidt

To borrow the language of Augustine, God is not only superior summo meo
beyond my utmost heights
but also interior intimo meo
more inward to me than my inmost depths. — David Bentley Hart

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more. — Vincent Van Gogh

As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Some people find life boring, there's too much time. Few find Life so exciting that there's no time at all and Life just zooms by.-RVM — R.v.m.

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity. — Edward McKendree Bounds

We are creating a world where no parent will ever again have to choose between skipping meals and sending their kids to school — Sharad Vivek Sagar