Van Zeller Quotes & Sayings

See your vocation as a God-given path to holiness. — Dom Hubert Van Zeller

The robot replaces production laborers and their physical work skills, whereas the computer replaces human thinking. The combination of the robot with the computer will generate our society's future labor force. — Dov Yanai

If you do not pray, everything can disappoint you by going wrong. If you do pray, everything can still go wrong, but not in a way that will disappoint you. — Hubert Van Zeller

Thus it looks in the last analysis as if the soul which serves God in spirit and in truth enjoys a very unusual kind of peace: not the satisfying inward rest which we would have expected, nor the outward rest of having everything in order and nothing left out, but a rest which consists in contentment at having sacrificed both to the will of God. — Dom Hubert Van Zeller

I've always been very shy and sheltered; I think it was a good way of starting to communicate with people. I was taught as a child never to talk about myself, never to talk about my emotions. Of course, now I talk about myself constantly. Now I have to take reverse est. — Sigourney Weaver

What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. — Dom Hubert Van Zeller

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting. — Hubert Van Zeller

The patients who constantly feel their pulse are not getting any better. — Hubert Van Zeller

Here is another strategy for the sentence completion exercise: Sure, Jesus talks about loving your enemies, but Jesus also talks about throwing sinners into hell to burn forever. Since eternal damnation is far worse than exterminating merely one ancient people for their land, the argument goes, don't get all worked up about the Canaanites. Crisis averted. No, it's not. — Peter Enns

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better. — Hubert Van Zeller

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer. — Andrea Martin

It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong, but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinion any more than the multiplication table. — C.S. Lewis

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God. — Hubert Van Zeller

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable. — Hubert Van Zeller

If you don't show up at a party, people will assume you're fat. — Julia Duffy

Love and sacrifice are not the same thing, but they are inseparable. To think of Christ and to think of the Cross is not the same thing, but the association is so close that the implication is immediate. Where love has been preached without sacrifice, it has not led to love but to license. — Hubert Van Zeller

To make one think is to change a generation, to build one thought is to grow a better world — Yolanda De Iuliis

But if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on. — Christopher Morley

Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me? — Hubert Van Zeller

When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today ... 40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that. — Richard Patrick

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God. — Hubert Van Zeller

Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a film, a broadcast, or a conversation with someone who can impart it. — Hubert Van Zeller