Volpicelli Center Quotes & Sayings

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really. — Ilona Andrews

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART. — Laurence Gartel

What are these deaths and revivals? It is clear that I do not live whenever I lose my faith in the existence of God, and I would have killed myself long ago if I did not have some vague hope of finding God. I truly live only whenever I am conscious of him and seek him. "What, then, do I seek?" a voice cried out within me. "He is there, the one without whom there could be no life." To know God and to liVe come to one and the same thing. God is life. — Leo Tolstoy

One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not. — Susan Sontag

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence. — Catherine Doherty

If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good. — Pope Benedict XVI

Somewhere to the eastward a wolf howled; lightly, questioningly. I knew the voice, for I had heard it many times before. It was George, sounding the wasteland for an echo from the missing members of his family. But for me it was a voice which spoke of the lost world which once was ours before we chose the alien role; a world which I had glimpsed and almost entered ... only to be excluded, at the end, by my own self. — Farley Mowat

Mental inertia is death. — Timothy Thomas Fortune