Do you ever read the scriptures?"
"Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes that I don't have a quick read of Ieremias or dip into Ezekiel."
She smiled, amused. "What a barbarian you are!


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You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason...
SAINT BERNARD
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor...
SAINT BERNARD
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a...
SAINT BERNARD
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong...
SAINT BERNARD
In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al...
SAINT BERNARD
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig...
SAINT BERNARD
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
SAINT BERNARD
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contem...
BERNARD LEVIN
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally ...
BERNARD LEVIN
The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its likin...
BERNARD BECKETT
People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the par...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was clas...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put o...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's t...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who,...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive f...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becomin...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And reall...
BERNARD EDWARDS
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to t...
SAINT BERNARD
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH
I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.
BERNARD MANNING
I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on...
BERNARD HILL
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE
The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fa...
BERNARD LOVELL
If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring wi...
BERNARD SUMNER
Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
BERNARD SUMNER
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
CLAUDE BERNARD
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
BERNARD BRANSON
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE
I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distort...
BERNARD INGHAM
A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
BERNARD MAGAZINE
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the...
BERNARD BARUCH
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some servic...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
BERNARD BARUCH
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qu...
BERNARD BERENSON
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that ...
BERNARD EDMONDS
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
ST. BERNARD
Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
ST. BERNARD
Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
BERNARD MELTZER
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving
BERNARD MELTZER
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But ...
BERNARD BARUCH
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. E...
BERNARD BARUCH
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCH
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.
BERNARD GILPIN
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a ...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to re...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE