Any activity that creates a sensation of guilt is evil. - GADEL
I may be wrong at all things but one; JESUS CHRIST IS LORD. Amen. -GADEL
Innocence is beauty. -GADEL
There are many ways to kill a cat, but before some people the cat commits suicide. - GADEL
What is wrong is wrong, what is right is right, what is wrong cannot be right and what is right cannot be wrong. - GADEL
African quotes:
Thought without practice is empty, practice without thought is blind.
- Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
We must use time wisely and forever remember that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
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Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
- William Plomer
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
African Proverb quotes:
When the music changes, so does the dance
- African Proverb
However long the night, the dawn will break.
- African Proverb
Peace is costly but it is worth the expense
- African Proverb
It is better to be loved than feared
- African Proverb
Don't set sail on someone else's star
- African Proverb
He who learns, teaches
- African Proverb
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
- African Proverb
Wisdom does not come overnight
- African Proverb
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
- African Proverb
Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die
- African Proverb
Religious quotes:
What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something. - Mother Theresa
The value of our life does not depend on the place we occupy. It depends on the way we occupy that place.
- St. Theresa of the Child Jesus
They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God....
- St. Teresa of Avila
No matter how good food is, if poison is mixed with it, it may cause the death of him who eats it. So it is with conversation. A single bad word, an evil action, an unbecoming joke, is often enough to harm one or more young listeners, and may later cause them to lose God's grace.
- St. John Bosco
Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.
- St. John Climacus
Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ -St. Jerome
True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbor's faults, never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues. -St. Therese of Lisieux
Not 100 in the United States hate the Roman Catholic Church, but millions hate what they mistakenly think the Roman Catholic Church is. -Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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Those who commit these types of scandals are guility of the spiritual equivalent of murder, but I', here among you to prevent something far worst for you. While those who give scandal are guilty of the spiritual equivalent of murder, those who take scandal- who allow scandals to destroy faith- are guilty of spiritual suicide.
- St. Francis de Sales
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
- Pope St. Gregory the Great
Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly.
- St. Ignatius Loyola
It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.
- St. Edmund
If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.
- St. Colette
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
- St. John of the Cross
When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in everything only His good pleasure, by whom it is certain that adversity is sent with as much love as prosperity, and as much for our good? When shall we cast ourselves undeservedly into the arms of our most loving Father in Heaven, leaving to Him the care of ourselves and of our affairs, and reserving only the desire of pleasing Him, and of serving Him well in all that we can?
- St. Jane Frances de Chantal
He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able to loose the mortal chains of death, and after three days' darkness could bring again to the upper world the brother for his sister Martha: he, I believe, will make Damasus rise again from the dust.
- St. Damasus
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
- St Aelred of Rievaulx
What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!
- St. Bernadette
Celebrate the feast of Christmas every day, even every moment in the interior temple of your spirit, remaining like a baby in the bosom of the heavenly Father, where you will be reborn each moment in the Divine Word, Jesus Christ.
- St. Paul of the Cross
It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world.
- St. Aloysius Gonzaga
Nothing is far from God.
- St. Monica
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it
- Mother Teresa
If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.
- St. Philip Neri
Not the goods of the world, but God. Not riches, but God. Not honors, but God. Not distinction, but God. Not dignities, but God. Not advancement, but God. God always and in everything.
- St. Vincent Pallotti
Whatever you do, think not of yourself, but of God.
- St. Vincent Ferrer
Christ said, "I am the Truth"; he did not say "I am the custom."
- St. Toribio
Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Charity unites us to God... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect.
- Pope St. Clement I
My daughter, I see more Pharisees among Christians than there were around Pilate.
- St. Margaret of Cortona
Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.
- St. John Eudes
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confession. In confession there is a chance for mercy. Believe it firmly. Do not doubt, do not hesitate, never despair of the mercy of God. Hope and have confidence in confession.
- St. Isidore of Seville
To love God is something greater than to know Him.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home.
- St. Rose of Viterbo
It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity"
- St. Albert the Great
Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?
- St. Gerard Majella
We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone.
- St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him.
- St. Dominic Savio
When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.
- St. Paul of the Cross
My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings.
- St. Isaac Jogues
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.
- Pope John Paul II
I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both in body and soul. My chains, which I carry about on me for Jesus Christ, begging that I may happily make my way to God, exhort you: persevere in your concord and in you community prayers.
- St. Ignatius of Antioch
No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. Do not talk about Jesus Christ as long as you love this world.
- St Ignatius of Antioch
You must ask God to give you power to fight against the sin of pride which is your greatest enemy - the root of all that is evil, and the failure of all that is good. For God resists the proud.
- St. Vincent de Paul
To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.
- St. Francis de Sales
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.
- St. Ephraem
You cannot please both God and the world at the same time, They are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions.
- St. John Vianney
Love God, serve God: everything is in that.
- St. Clare of Assisi
Mary was raised to the dignity of Mother of God rather for sinners than for the just, since Jesus Christ declares that he came to call not the just, but sinners.
- St. Anselm
The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Other Famous quotes:
I try not to confuse excellence with perfection; Excellence I can acquire; the perfection part is up to GOD. - Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher Von Braun
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.
- Sir Winston Churchill
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- Ernesto"Che"Guevara
Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- T. S. Eliot
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research
- Wilson Mizner
Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
- Charles William Stubbs
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
- Plato
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy
There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
- C. A. R. Hoare
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
- Mahatma Gandhi
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
- Xenocrates
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato
Dancing is silent poetry.
- Simonides
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
- Henry Ford
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
- Yogi Berra
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
- Leon Trotsky
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
- Ayn Rand
Top Cynical and/or Silly quotes:
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman
Woman was God's second mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
God, please save me from your followers!
- Bumper Sticker
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
- Woody Allen
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
- Robert Pirsig
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
- Mae West
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
- Walt Disney
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
- Moses Hadas
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton
