Quotes about Quote
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
— Ambrose of Milan
Love is he, radiant with great splendor,And speaks to us of Thee, O Most High.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.
— Saint Jerome
the world groaned and was astonished to find itself Arian
— Saint Jerome
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.
— Samuel Johnson
If ye were not Christ's wheat, appointed to be bread in His house, He would not grind you.
— Samuel Rutherford
Christ all the seasons of the year, is dropping sweetness; if I had vessels I might fill them, but my old riven, holey, and running-out dish, even when I am at the well, can bring little away. Nothing but glory will make tight and fast our leaking and rifty30 vessels . . . How little of the sea can a child carry in his hand; as little do I take away of my great sea, my boundless and running-over Christ Jesus. Sure
— Samuel Rutherford
Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas
— Carl Jung
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
— Heinrich Heine
Someone once told me that the '…Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.
— Britney Spears
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
— Harry S. Truman
I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.
— Dorothy Day