Universitaires Notre Dame Quotes & Sayings

Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old. — Edward Bellamy

Freedom and crime are so indissolubly connected to each other, like ... well, like the movement of the aero and its velocity. When the velocity of the aero = 0, it doesn't move; when the freedom of a person = 0, he doesn't commit crime. This is clear. The sole means of ridding man of crime is to rid him of freedom. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that we are made strong by what we overcome; that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good; that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly; that power waits upon him who earns it; that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber. — John Burroughs

No matter what circumstances we might face in life, it is possible for us to overcome in the midst of them by taking hold of God's thoughts. — Christine Caine

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world — Arundhati Roy

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity. — Rick Steves

Our battle is spiritual, and what we accomplish in the spirit realm is as important as what the highly trained, prepared, and equipped soldier does in the physical. We must know our weapons and be highly skilled in using them. But first we must put on the armor God has given us in order to stand strong against — Stormie O'martian

The wavering heart must have a straight path of decision for God and holiness marked out for it. Double-minded men are strangers to the God of truth. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon