S Quotes
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“St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“St. Ash – who knew? (Gallagher)”
“St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.”
Source: The Way of Salvation and of Perfection
“St. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from that one narrow interpretation, what the Bible describes is very consistent with the Big Bang.”
“St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.”
Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God.”
“St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“St. Elsewhere was certainly a great show”
“St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others will say of him. O my God, why do we not ask what Jesus Christ or his holy mother will think of our conduct?”
“St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.”
“St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.”
“St. Jerome declares that he holds for certain, and has learned from experience, that he will never make a good end who has led a bad life to the very last: 'This I hold, this I have learned by much experience, that his will be an evil end who has always led an evil life.'”
Source: Preparation for Death: A Popular Abridgment
“St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a physical sound that vibrates the eardrum but something transcending the senses. Physical solitude and silence remove the distracting noises that prevent us from hearing on deeper levels.”
“St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.”
Source: Apostolic Exhortation, the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World: Familiaris Consortio
“St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.”
“St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.”
“St. Louis has always been special to me.”
“St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.”
“St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.”
“St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.”
“St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey.”
“St. Patrick's Day is the fourth biggest drinking day in America. It's not the biggest. It's right behind New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, or any Secret Service party.”
“St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.”
“St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.”
“St. Paul's
Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose
“St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.”
Source: Travels in England in 1782
“St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.”
“St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.”
“St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.”
“St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The bears of the Russian forests are very ferocious, and the two women were terrified. But Seraphim reassured them and showed them that he who is sanctified lives in peace with all creation, just as Adam did before the Fall.”
“St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.”
Source: Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit
“St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.”
Source: Letters
“St. Tropez has a face glow that is amazing - you can put it on without makeup, and your skin just glows.”
“St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.”
“Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla
Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.”
“Sta mi mogu moji neprijatelji. Moj dzennet je u mojim prsima, prati me svugdje. Ako me zatvore, to mi je osama sa Allahom. Ako me ubiju, to mi je sehadet. A ako me protjeraju, to mi je turizam na Allahovom putu".”
“Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running”
“Stab one or two healers, and everyone overreacts.”
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
“Stabbed me from behind, you will live as human and I will save you as God”
“Stabbing a knife in someone's throat is clearly "wrong". Doesn't matter if that "someone" is furred, feathered, scaled or a smooth skinned biped. Violently ending the life of someone who does not wish to die, will go against the conscience of all who have not been desensitised to the act..”
“Stabbing someone from the front is far more difficult than stabbing them in the back.”
Source: Wild Card
“Stabbity stab, knife wife,' says Fala, with feeling. 'Traitor's blood is hot, but it still spills.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.”
Source: The words of Desmond Tutu
“Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on.”
Source: Secrets of the Italian Gardener
“Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.”
“Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.”
“Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“Stability is a part of working to improve yourself by focusing on the positive and remaining persistent.”
Source: The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny
“STABILITY IS AN ILLUSION. EMBRACE THE FLUX, OR BE CONSUMED
BY IT”
Source: NeXus: The Artificial Intelligence Machine