The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to h...
EDWARD ST. AUBYN Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader....
EDWARD ST AUBYN I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's al...
EDWARD ST. AUBYN Is there ever anything to get unduly worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there ...
EDWARD ST. AUBYN The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that th...
EDWARD ST AUBYN I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writi...
EDWARD ST AUBYN The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat opera...
EDWARD ST AUBYN Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to wri...
EDWARD ST AUBYN It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great convers...
EDWARD ST AUBYN I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situati...
EDWARD ST AUBYN It is melancholy to reflect that Mankind has suffered more from ill-judged philanthropy than from ca...
GILES ST. AUBYN Thought, like all potent weapons, is exceedingly dangerous if mishandled. Clear thinking is therefor...
GILES ST. AUBYN We have to stop thinking that somebody is going to help us ... make it attractive for the bank to fi...
AUBYN HILL Many times the major impediment to delivery of services is that the disparate arms of government are...
AUBYN HILL The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in t...
ST. JEROME Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse mee...
ST. VINCENT The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had peo...
ST. VINCENT The golden age is before us, not behind us.
ST. SIMON Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROME Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE Prayer is a groan.
ST. JEROME 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 A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy re...
ST. BASIL Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
ST. BASIL Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
ST. BERNARD It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
ST. BERNARD When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers l...
ST. BASIL I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
ST. BERNARD Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of nec...
ST. BASIL The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
ST. BERNARD Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
ST. AUGUSTINE The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust.
ST. AUGUSTINE The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
ST. AUGUSTINE Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
ST. BASIL God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p...
ST. AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ST. JEROME Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously ...
ST. VINCENT A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o...
ST. JEROME I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everyt...
ST. VINCENT I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f...
ST. JEROME A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almos...
ST. VINCENT My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr...
ST. JEROME Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something...
ST. VINCENT I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.
ST. LUCIA Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.
ST. AUGUSTINE The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob...
ST. AUGUSTINE God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should s...
ST. AUGUSTINE Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
ST. AUGUSTINE Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ...
ST. AUGUSTINE God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin...
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The truth is neither mi...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ...
ST. AUGUSTINE What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which...
ST. AUGUSTINE Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ...
ST. AUGUSTINE My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan go...
ST. VINCENT The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
ST. LUCIA To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD ST. I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking a...
ST. VINCENT Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completel...
ST. VINCENT Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat...
ST. JEROME I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, &...
ST. VINCENT Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a m...
ST. BASIL What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
ST. JEROME And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, rig...
ST. VINCENT I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain...
ST. LUCIA If you want to build a ship
don’t herd people together to collect wood
and don’t assig...
ST. EXUPERY No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
ST. BASIL I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
BERNARD, ST. Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
BERNARD, ST. I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD, ST. Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD, ST. Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
BERNARD, ST. The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD, ST. Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never a...
BERNARD, ST. I just believe that everybody has concerns and is interested in the educational process,
ST. AMBROSE Where Peter is, there must be the Church
ST. AMBROSE There is no time of life past learning something.
ST. AMBROSE Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD ST. I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
ST. VINCENT St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this no...
ST. LUCIA Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confes...
ST. ISADORE Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
ST. AUGUSTINE I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
ST. AUGUSTINE People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course...
ST. AUGUSTINE At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not ...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
ST. AUGUSTINE Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end o...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, wit...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lor...
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 It is not that we keep His commandments f...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 None can become fit for the future life, who h...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We need not despair of any man, s...
ST. AUGUSTINE Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are le...
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their ...
ST. AUGUSTINE When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not becau...
ST. AUGUSTINE But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Bo...
ST. AUGUSTINE Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
ST. JEROME Quick enough, if good enough.
ST. JEROME Never look a gift horse in the mouth!
ST. JEROME When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting
ST. JEROME Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother!
ST. JEROME Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
ST. JEROME Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.
ST. BASIL The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD ST. God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
ST. AUGUSTINE Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
ST. AUGUSTINE Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
ST. AUGUSTINE And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departe...
ST AUGUSTINE The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.
ST. AMBROSE Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apos...
ST. CYPRIAN Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot...
ST. BONAVENTURE Nothing can work me damage except myself.
ST. BERNARD Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A man's personality actuates and qui...
ST. ATHANASIUS Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Human and human-minded as men were, t...
ST. ATHANASIUS Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Both from the confession of the evil...
ST. ATHANASIUS Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ST. ATHANASIUS Feast of Philip & James, Apostles What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind -...
ST. ATHANASIUS Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Those blessed ones of ...
ST. ANSELM Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 O Lord our God, grant u...
ST. ANSELM Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fea...
ST. AMBROSE Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 It is a great mystery of divine love, that not ev...
ST. AMBROSE Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Fa...
ST. AMBROSE Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to s...
ST. AMBROSE No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
ST. AMBROSE Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the...
ST. ALCUIN This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
ST AUGUSTINE Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Continuing a short series on prayer: T...
ST. TERESA Continuing a short series on the Bible: A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scr...
ST. JEROME Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmo...
ST. CYPRIAN Just suppose members of our churches were voted on, like the members of certain civic clubs. Suppose...
ST. CYPRIAN One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always co...
ST. VINCENT Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
ST. JEROME It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you&#...
ST. LUCIA I was really into Radiohead and Live.
ST. LUCIA I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
ST. LUCIA The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the r...
ST. LUCIA I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so...
ST. LUCIA I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your ...
ST. LUCIA I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a...
ST. VINCENT We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most ...
ST. LUCIA Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
ST. BASIL The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
OLIVER ST. JOHN If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
OLIVER ST. JOHN And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time...
LARA ST. JOHN Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to...
LARA ST. JOHN Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
LARA ST. JOHN I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e...
LARA ST. JOHN Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they...
LARA ST. JOHN Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be som...
LARA ST. JOHN I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in femal...
LARA ST. JOHN There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
LARA ST. JOHN Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get ...
LARA ST. JOHN Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
LARA ST. JOHN For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
LARA ST. JOHN Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ...
LARA ST. JOHN When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
LARA ST. JOHN There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or ...
LARA ST. JOHN The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the...
LARA ST. JOHN Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, t...
LARA ST. JOHN I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having mu...
LARA ST. JOHN Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
LARA ST. JOHN Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop o...
LARA ST. JOHN I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
LARA ST. JOHN What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popu...
LARA ST. JOHN