Best Lourdes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Lourdes was an intoxicating place. I remember thinking that it was probably what Las Vegas would have been like if casinos and nightclubs had been replaced by Catholicism.”

Catholicism Las Vegas Lourdes

Author:Arthur Matthews

“Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.”

Eye Nations Easy Daughter Sick Miracle Down And Filled Cures Instance Enthusiasm Savages Lourdes

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.”

Difficulty Legs Crutches Lourdes

Author:Emile Zola

“I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.”

Water Type Lucky Luck Lourdes

Author:Joan Rivers

“I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.”

Believe I Believe Miracle Catholic I Believe In Tea Power Of Love Lourdes

Book:Minor Characters

Source: Minor Characters

“I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!”

People Realizing Sin Lessons Ill Complaining Reconciliation Drawbacks Lourdes

Author:Mireille Mathieu

“We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism”

Want Wisdom Evil Water Australia Misfortunes Dip Euphemism Lourdes

Author:Robert Hughes

“Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice.”

Heart Overcoming Sacred Delight Rejoice Sacred Heart Lourdes

Author:Bernadette Soubirous

“I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.”

Years Hours Birth New Year New Years Eve Lourdes

Author:Paulo Coelho

“New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.”

Funny Spiritual New York Humorous Goats Being Irish Refreshments Irish Author Lourdes

Author:Brendan Behan

“Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.”

Firsts Persons Beautiful Remember Mother Left Religious First Time Train Intense Grandmother My Grandmother Pilgrimage Religious Person Beautiful Experiences Lourdes

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.”

Giving Years Analysts Lourdes

Author:Woody Allen

“It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it”

“I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.”

People Thinking Believe Existence Atheism Miracle Blessed Unconscious Virgins Agnosticism Believe In Miracles Lourdes

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.”

Thinking Never Trust Lourdes

Author:Joe Garagiola

“You are the love you seek. You are the companionship you desire. You are your own completion, your own wholeness. You are your best friend, your confidant. 'You are,' as poetess Audre Lourde wrote, 'the one that you are looking for.' You are the only one who can do what you are looking for someone else to do.”

Desire Can Do Love You Wholeness Companionship Completion Your Best Friend Confidant Lourdes

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“You are the one that you are looking for.”

Healing Lourdes

Author:Audre Lorde

“I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.”

Men Expensive Terrific One Liner One Line Lourdes

Author:Bob Hope

“I'm going to my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.”

Years Psychology Lourdes

Author:Woody Allen