Quotes by Priests

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
George Herbert
When Adam dolve and Eve span Who was then the gentleman?
John Ball
Night is the mother of counsels.
George Herbert
There are no atheists in the foxholes.
William Thomas Cummings
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
George Herbert
God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.
J. P. DeCaussade
The present is the symbol and vehicle of the future.
Joseph McSorely
The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.
George Herbert
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
Joseph Roux
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
George Herbert
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.
Joseph Rickaby
Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.
George Herbert
The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts.
John Ayscough
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
Jean Nicholas Grou
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
Malcolm Boyd
Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.
George Herbert
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.
Malcolm Boyd
He that will learn to pray let him to sea.
George Herbert
Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.
Joseph Roux
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
Daniel Berrigan
There are no short cuts to Heaven only the ordinary way of ordinary things.
Vincent McNabb
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.
Joseph Roux
Praise the sea but keep on land.
George Herbert
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest the butterflies the song of the birds if we can't see the stars at night.
Thomas Berry
The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts.
John Ayscough
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
Jean Nicholas Grou
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.
Joseph Rickaby
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
Malcolm Boyd
Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.
George Herbert
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.
Malcolm Boyd
He that will learn to pray let him to sea.
George Herbert
Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.
Joseph Roux
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
Daniel Berrigan
There are no short cuts to Heaven only the ordinary way of ordinary things.
Vincent McNabb
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.
Joseph Roux
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
George Herbert
Praise the sea but keep on land.
George Herbert
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest the butterflies the song of the birds if we can't see the stars at night.
Thomas Berry
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.
Joseph Roux
Someday after we have mastered the winds the waves the tide and gravity we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.
Teilhard de Chardin
Joy is the most infallible sign of the Presence of God.
Teilhard de Chardin
God's mill grinds slow but sure.
George Herbert
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
Daniel Berrigan
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears not to oust them.
Vincent NcNabb
At first we hope too much later on not enough.
Joseph Roux
Hope is the poor man's bread.
George Herbert
Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
Carter Heyward
Little pitchers have wide ears.
George Herbert
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.
Joseph Roux
When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
Joseph Roux
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
A great ship asks deep water.
George Herbert