Tvedten Quotes & Sayings

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake — Jeannette Rankin

When you work hard, good things happen — Allen Iverson

Conversion may mean changing one's mind, overcoming prejudices, looking at things differently. Someone has remarked that conversatio means never having to say, 'But we've always done it this way. — Benet Tvedten

Don't seek God elsewhere. Seek God now, right here, in the routine things that have to be done. Find God in the ordinary circumstances of your life. — Benet Tvedten

I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Being Benedictine--a monastic or an oblate--means trying a little harder to show the courtesy of love for one another, to see Christ in the people with whom, we live, work and pray--and to look for Him even in the people with whom we disagree. — Benet Tvedten

When we react angrily or negatively about everything that happens to us, we're failing in patience. — Benet Tvedten

(26) Eat Potatoes According to researchers at Los Angeles' Pacific Western University, savoring a tasty, filling potato every day (as long as you eat it mashed, boiled or baked -- not fried) helps 81 percent of people get their blood pressure under control (and with just half their usual prescription meds). — Stephen Tvedten

With 'Mad Men,' you feel like you're a member of Seal Team Six when you're shooting. — Ben Feldman

Learning to hear when there is no crisis is good practice for when we are under fire and need urgent help. — Wendy Backlund

One cannot conclude that there are no great saints just because no great miracles are worked. The true estimate of life, after all, lies in acts of virtue, not in the display of miracles. There are many, Peter, who without performing miracles, are not at all inferior to those who perform them. — Benet Tvedten

Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Jesus. He sings another song and I'm straddling the speaker, — Vi Keeland

I like being mistaken for someone useful. — Helen Humphreys