St John The Evangelist Quotes & Sayings

But maybe it won't. Maybe it will take on a role like the TCP protocol, where it becomes a piece of infrastructure on which other things are built, and has the inertia of consensus. — Randall Munroe

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live. — John Donne

If you're lucky enough to get old, I think you should celebrate it. — Iris Apfel

Escorts to Heavens I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the Lord!" - Psalm 122:1 St. John Macias worked for the sick in Peru and, no matter how tired he was, prayed three Rosaries on his knees every night for the poor souls in purgatory. On his deathbed, St. John the Evangelist appeared to him and said that through his prayers St. John Macias had released one million four hundred thousand souls from purgatory. When he died, thousands upon thousands of souls poured from heaven to greet him. — Susan Tassone

The purpose of life
is to give our life purpose. — A.J. Beirens

People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order, no nonsense. So that's where their psyche is at. Probably it's something that they've got to go through. Not that there isn't a need for order in the world, but the mystical level seems to be the mature level of religion, and there the question is not order but union - divine union. And so, without some integration of the feminine, usually you never get to the mystical level. — Richard Rohr

In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life. — Michael Dolan

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love. — Mother Teresa

If you are anything like me, you do a lot of listening to yourself everyday. — C.J. Mahaney

Most people are about as aware of their surroundings as a sea cucumber. — Douglas Preston

the regular crying, lights on — Amir Gutfreund

I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Saviour and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears. — Robert Treat Paine

The boy thought it a strange question. But he trusted in the old man, who had said that, when you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor. — Paulo Coelho

The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves the death of Jesus is an all-sufficient price. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a failure, God did not vindicate his sin-bearing achievement, and we are still in our sins. — John Piper

Violet smiled up at Nikolai. "I'm so very glad you came to Riversleigh."
Nikolai looked serious as he thought for a moment. "You know what, myshka? I'm very glad too. The old world and the old ways are dying. I think the new world and the new ways are filled with endless possibilities. — Belinda Murrell

But I called, as we came near, to one who stood beside the water's edge, asking him what men did in Astahahn and what their merchandise was, and with whom they traded. He said, "Here we have fettered and manacled Time, who would otherwise slay the gods." I asked him what gods they worshipped in that city, and he said, "All those gods whom Time has not yet slain." (from "Idle Days on the River Yann") — Lord Dunsany