St Charbel Quotes & Sayings

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had everything been wrong, we should certainly have heard. — W. H. Auden

We all want things that are not necessarily essential, but we always choose those actions which we think will best improve the situation from our viewpoint. This means that the ideas that men hold determine their choice of actions. This means that the most important thing in the world is ideas. — Percy L. Greaves Jr.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority? — Amin Maalouf

there are times when simply looking at him breaks her heart. Not in a sad way. It's the other kind of heartbreak. The kind that clenches the insides upon discovery of something particularly beautiful or altogether implausible. — Barbara Forte Abate

Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ. — Michael Horton

I met a man at a party. He said "I'm writing a novel" I said "Oh really? Neither am I. — Peter Cook

The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it. — Curt Sachs

But, overall, I concluded the young-hack-versus-corporate-corruption thriller had potential. (The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred times before!" - as if there could be anything not done a hundred thousand times between Aristophanes and Andrew Void-Webber! As if Art is the What, not the How!) My — David Mitchell

The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...
p.17 — Fredrik Backman

Whatever you want to have happen to you make it happen for others now and eventually but inevitably you will reap the seeds you have sown. — Sharon Gannon

More and more number of youths and adults get addicted to nicotine on daily basis. — Sunday Adelaja

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite. — Epictetus

The more thoughtful the man, the more complicated will be the streets in his brain, and the more easily he will take to new ideas, and understand them. So with every fresh idea, we make a new impression in the brain, cut new channels through the brain-stuff, and that is why we find that in the practice of Yoga (it being an entirely new set of thoughts and motives) there is so much physical resistance at first. That is why we find that the part of religion which deals with the world-side of nature is so widely accepted, while the other part, the philosophy, or the psychology, which clears with the inner nature of man, is so frequently neglected. — Swami Vivekananda

All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino. — Nonito Donaire

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set. — Lasse Hallstrom