Famous quotes by Clergymans

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Never give advice in a crowd"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet of the crystal"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"If you want peace, work for justice"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

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