Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wilberforce

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

William Wilberforce

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

Randal Jr

I'd just like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, and I think that's it.

Richard Paul Evans

As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.

Richard J. Needham

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Richard Baxter

I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many others, but yet did profit me more than most; because he would never in prayer or conference speak of God, or the life to come, but with such marvelous seriousness and reverence, as if he had seen the majesty and glory which he talked of.

Richard Baxter

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

Richard Baxter

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

Saint Augustine

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Bill Donohue

What we would like them to do is send them a message that this kind of hate speech which is designed to intimidate Catholics from engaging in public discussions can't be tolerated.

Andrew Greeley

God lurks everywhere. That's the fundamental Catholic instinct on the imaginative and poetic level-that God is lurking everywhere. Right down the street, right around the corner, there's God.

Meghan Markle

I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.

Robert Duvall

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Salma Hayek

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

Saint Augustine

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Saint Augustine

Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.

Samantha Bee

It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.

Kurt Braunohler

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

Rufus Wainwright

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

David Mitchell

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Anna Freud

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Stanley Kunitz

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

John Steinbeck

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

Maureen Corrigan

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

Lorrie Moore

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?