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Joachim Du Bellay

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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
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 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...
SAINT BERNARD
Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ...
SAINT BERNARD
That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
SAINT BERNARD
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin...
SAINT BERNARD
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
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinar...
SAINT BASIL
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enqu...
SAINT BASIL
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
SAINT BASIL
We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not s...
SAINT BASIL
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individua...
SAINT BASIL
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control ov...
SAINT BASIL
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a ...
SAINT BASIL
To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
SAINT BASIL
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you ...
SAINT BASIL
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
SAINT BASIL
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
SAINT BASIL
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
SAINT BASIL
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our h...
SAINT BASIL
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who do...
SAINT BASIL
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itsel...
SAINT BASIL

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Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W.E.B. DU BOIS
As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like wom...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpo...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority
FRANçOIS DU TOIT
She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.
JACQUELINE DU PRE
Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a dist...
PETE DU PONT
It's important to me that no one can say I'm not pumping out high-level research.
MARCUS DU SAUTOY
We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopel...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because th...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Manipulation and Abuse are brothers we do not want to be related too. They slip in like a pest and w...
ANITA DU PLESSIS
What does our way of caring for others look like? Do we check our schedules first or do we get out o...
ANITA DU PLESSIS
If we can't appreciate the little things how do we expect to appreciate the big things? Be thankful ...
ANITA DU PLESSIS
Taking short cuts are costly and not worth it. Doing it right takes longer, but the result is a soli...
ANITA DU PLESSIS
Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to ven...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY
Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. J...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY
Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.
SIMON DU PLOCK
It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Joseph ...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-bo...
PETE DU PONT
If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my des...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY
Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seem...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W.E.B. DU BOIS
After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that thro...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
a quality of thought, a state of mind.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-eve...
ELIZE DU TOIT