Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Priests - Page 2

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

I am going to marry Fantasia. She just doesn't know it yet.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

The true measure of a leader is what it takes to stop him.

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

Mom and Dad were the best. I never clashed with them.

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by, as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

Every volcano is a powerful illustration of God's character. He is a Vesuvius of goodness, life, and energy.

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues. Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he has taken a stand to protect his nation's children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda.

Laughter is God's blessing.

If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.

The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

Abraham was extremely wealthy and he had a covenant with God. It's not the Jewish blessing, it's the Abrahamic blessing. I get excited talking about it 'cause I love it and I started out deep in debt with nothing. I had to learn this from the Bible and from my spiritual mentor Oral Roberts.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.