Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932 Any such distinction between disreputable and respectable sins... Jesus Christ absolutely refuses to allow. In His eyes avarice, pride, refusal to forgive, hypocrisy, are at least as bad as fornication or adultery or violence.
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POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate... POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth... POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro... POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi... POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d... POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the... POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ... POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e... POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t... POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow. POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b... POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re... POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther... POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you... POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. POPE JOHN PAUL II The Lord seeks to establish status quo before His return. He is gathering His sheep, His birds, His ... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN -SENIOR LEGAL CONSULTANT & AUTHOR Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnograp... JOHN OWEN Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnogra... OTTO BETZ I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind. "Char... EDITH PATTOU Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 Let no one suppose that we may attain to this true... THEOLOGIA GERMANICA A believer with the fruit of the Spirit is certainly one with all the believers in the body, and a j... HENRY HON The scars of others should teach us caution. ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men. ST. JEROME Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not... SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked. SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth... SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen... SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble... SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir... SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi... SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde... SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec... SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some. SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco... SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o... SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H... SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h... SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ... SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. SAINT PATRICK Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be... SAINT IGNATIUS I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go... SAINT IGNATIUS Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,... SAINT IGNATIUS The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagati... SAINT IGNATIUS We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the ... SAINT IGNATIUS We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar... SAINT IGNATIUS It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ... SAINT IGNATIUS Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w... SAINT IGNATIUS In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra... SAINT IGNATIUS Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe... SAINT IGNATIUS Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n... SAINT IGNATIUS Teach us to give and not to count the cost. SAINT IGNATIUS In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju... SAINT IGNATIUS May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him! SAINT IGNATIUS True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. SAINT IGNATIUS May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. SAINT IGNATIUS For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je... SAINT IGNATIUS If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ... SAINT IGNATIUS Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not. SAINT BERNARD For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ... SAINT BERNARD Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do... SAINT BERNARD Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav... SAINT BERNARD I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C... SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure... SAINT BERNARD A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ... SAINT BERNARD Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in... 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Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Many people have... CHARLES GORE Feast of Pentecost Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 It was something more ... CHARLES GORE Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the... CHARLES GORE Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the... CHARLES GORE Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the ... CHARLES GORE Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the ... CHARLES GORE I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co... AL GORE A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. AL GORE During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. AL GORE The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the c... AL GORE Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which ... GORE VIDAL McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject. GORE VIDAL I can understand companionship. GORE VIDAL Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He u... GORE VIDAL The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li... GORE VIDAL I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones. GORE VIDAL What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose p... GORE VIDAL The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them ... GORE VIDAL As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a pol... GORE VIDAL The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No Fi... GORE VIDAL At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. GORE VIDAL Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some eviden... GORE VIDAL Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. GORE VIDAL Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. AL GORE How could this [Y2K] be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft? AL GORE No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glo... AL GORE When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the... AL GORE I think his legacy is going to be the natural environment, improving the green spaces of our country... AL GORE The day I made that statement, [about the inventing the internet] I was tired because I'd been up al... AL GORE The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake. The worst thing we can possib... AL GORE Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume th... AL GORE to mend some fences, both literally and figuratively. AL GORE I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy. GORE VIDAL I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to ... GORE VIDAL Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. GORE VIDAL Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness witho... GORE VIDAL Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, an... GORE VIDAL That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness... GORE VIDAL The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work ... AL GORE Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. GORE VIDAL For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar... GORE VIDAL Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is... GORE VIDAL Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence... GORE VIDAL Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. GORE VIDAL It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Fr... GORE VIDAL I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. GORE VIDAL There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosex... GORE VIDAL Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex cer... GORE VIDAL I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tos... ARIEL GORE The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. GORE VIDAL Never have children, only grand children. GORE VIDAL Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described,... GORE VIDAL I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you ... GORE VIDAL When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a C... GORE VIDAL How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time... GORE VIDAL There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master... GORE VIDAL Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is a... GORE VIDAL The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No Fi... GORE VIDAL You're talking to someone who really understands rock music. TIPPER GORE For half a century, photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are... GORE VIDAL As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill... GORE VIDAL There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. GORE VIDAL If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives ... GORE VIDAL Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the... GORE VIDAL Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues an... GORE VIDAL Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning wh... GORE VIDAL It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imag... GORE VIDAL Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. GORE VIDAL In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, ... GORE VIDAL To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours,... GORE VIDAL I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. GORE VIDAL If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual live... GORE VIDAL Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. GORE VIDAL Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn. GORE VIDAL All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which ... GORE VIDAL Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence t... GORE VIDAL It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we... GORE VIDAL It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. GORE VIDAL Settling other people's land is an American tradition. ARIEL GORE I'm a born-again atheist. GORE VIDAL Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes i... GORE VIDAL There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. GORE VIDAL Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. GORE VIDAL The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up... AL GORE It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real trag... GORE VIDAL We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us th... GORE VIDAL For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, t... GORE VIDAL I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash. KRISTIN GORE I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about ... ARIEL GORE On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a deb... GORE VIDAL My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animat... GORE VERBINSKI My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something y... GORE VERBINSKI Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor... GORE VERBINSKI If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shar... GORE VERBINSKI Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda. GORE VIDAL I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America. AL GORE I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is g... AL GORE When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, wh... MARTIN GORE The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body... KRISTIN GORE In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set... KRISTIN GORE Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. AL GORE When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts ... ARIEL GORE Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls ... AL GORE Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust a... GORE VIDAL I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for m... GORE VIDAL I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. GORE VIDAL Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. GORE VIDAL I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me h... ARIEL GORE The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning th... GORE VIDAL Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. GORE VIDAL As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill... GORE VIDAL There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Repu... GORE VIDAL In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscene... AL GORE To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not al... GORE VIDAL Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorr... AL GORE As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil ... AL GORE I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. AL GORE Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a c... AL GORE I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and g... AL GORE Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain... AL GORE By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Re... GORE VIDAL It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. GORE VIDAL Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the t... GORE VIDAL I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin ... AL GORE Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunatel... MARTIN GORE I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased beha... GORE VIDAL Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete w... GORE VIDAL As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to ... LESLEY GORE Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillf... GORE VIDAL Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the... GORE VIDAL Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We ha... AL GORE Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital informat... AL GORE I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that... GORE VERBINSKI There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dram... AL GORE Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a f... GORE VIDAL I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoev... AL GORE Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead. GORE VIDAL I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-li... ARIEL GORE Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could ev... AL GORE In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he wa... GORE VIDAL I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are ... AL GORE I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. GORE VIDAL As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyd... AL GORE The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. GORE VIDAL It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four per... GORE VIDAL There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to ... AL GORE Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. GORE VIDAL The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for chan... AL GORE No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be... GORE VIDAL That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. GORE VIDAL Envy is the central fact of American life. GORE VIDAL I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the sc... GORE VIDAL I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst. GORE VIDAL If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don... AL GORE By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We als... GORE VIDAL Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriousl... GORE VIDAL I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fash... AL GORE The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The q... AL GORE The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known an... AL GORE The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice ... AL GORE I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for m... KRISTIN GORE I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade. KRISTIN GORE The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself a... GORE VIDAL The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes. TIPPER GORE Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. ... 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GORE VIDAL Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. GORE VIDAL I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to ... GORE VIDAL Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for c... GORE VIDAL I might be President by now if it weren't for this 'queer' thing GORE VIDAL Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. GORE VIDAL Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualifi... GORE VIDAL A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships. GORE VIDAL The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who... GORE VIDAL A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. GORE VIDAL All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. 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