Sir Richard Steele Quotes & Sayings

No shirt today. Dammit. — Colleen Hoover

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it. — Robert A. Heinlein

The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. — R. K. Milholland

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong. — Charles Caleb Colton

All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities. — Georgette Leblanc

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church. — Timothy Radcliffe

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We should employ our passions in the service of life," Sir Richard Steele wrote, "not spend life in the service of our passions. — Joan D. Chittister

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. — Okakura Kakuzo

In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise.' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever. — Dwight L. Moody

It was time for tea as it so often was. — Alexander McCall Smith

You were worth it. — J.M. Darhower