A Quote by Mark Twain

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Mark Twain

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .

H. L. Mencken

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

Ernest Legouve

Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

Lauren Oliver

The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

Mason Cooley

It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, "Let us make man". It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, "Let us save man".

J. C. Ryle

There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy

Harry Chapin

O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature.

St. Catherine of Siena

A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.

Lisa McMann

All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.

Tertullian

Instead of loving the Trinity of God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), we tend to love a different trinity: Me, myself, and I.

Mark Hart

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

Oscar Wilde

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

Nick Flynn

Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.