A Quote by Heinrich Heine
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.
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If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.
Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!
The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada
It was Mary who first adored the Incarnate Word. He was in her womb, and no one on earth knew of it. Oh! how well was our Lord served in Mary's virginal womb! Never has He found a ciborium, a golden vase more precious or purer than was Mary's womb! Mary's adoration was more pleasing to Him than that of all the Angels. The Lord 'hath set His tabernacle in the sun,' says the Psalmist. The sun is Mary's heart," and "Mary is the aurora of the beautiful Sun of Justice.
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.
We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.
The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.
I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer. We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours in the study.
I think praying is very important. I'm not going to say that I'm very religious and I don't go to church as much as I should probably, but I definitely pray more than the average person. I'm a man of the Lord.
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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