Saint Pierre Quotes

Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

Patience is the courage of virtue. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

The Abbe de Saint-Pierre suggested an association of all the states of Europe to maintain perpetual peace among themselves. Is this association practicable, and supposing that it were established, would it be likely to last? ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

The hands of Yves Saint Laurent are something really important - two real characters on their own. ~ Pierre Niney

Bernstein Death, my son, is a good for all; it is the night of this worrisome day that one calls life. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me? ~ Saint Augustine

The painting did not exist until I made it,' Karabekian went on. 'Now that it does exist, nothing would make me happier than to have it reproduced again and again, and vastly improved upon, by all the five-year-olds in town. I would love for your children to find pleasantly and playfully what it took me many angry years to find.

'I now give you my world of honor,' he went on, 'that the picture your city owns shows everything about life which truly matters, with nothing left out. It is a picture of the awareness of every animal. It is the immaterial core of every animal - the 'I am' to which all messages are sent. It is all that is alive in any of us - in a mouse, in a deer, in a cocktail waitress. It is unwavering and pure, no matter what preposterous adventure may befall us. A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a cocktail waitress, the picture would show two such bands of light. Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

'I have just heard from this cocktail waitress here, this vertical band of light, a story about her husband and an idiot who was about to be executed at Sheperdstown. Very well - let a five-year-old strip away the idiocy, the bars, the waiting electric chair, the uniform of the guard, the gun of the guard, the bones and meat of the guard. What is that perfect picture which any five-year-old ca ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold. ~ Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy, because you understand them but they do not understand you. ~ Daniel Saint

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. ~ Thomas Merton

If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil. ~ Saint John Chrysostom

With the harmonious balance between materialist nature and spiritual attitude, it is possible to be affluent yet with the soul of a saint. Such a state is a synthesis of matter and soul; the Rich Monk is a way to be rich in two ways. ~ Vishwas Chavan

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man. ~ Blaise Pascal

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage. ~ Jean-Pierre Melville

Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

No one is ever satisfied where he is ... Only the children know what they're looking for ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just. ~ Victor Hugo

He who must travel happily must travel light. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience. ~ Anne Hutchinson

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem. ~ Samuel Rutherford

Unless a theologian has the inner fortitude of a desert saint, he has only one effective remedy against the threat of cognitive collapse in the face of these pressures: he must huddle together with like-minded fellow deviants⁠ - and huddle very closely indeed. Only in a countercommunity of considerable strength does cognitive deviance have a chance to maintain itself. The countercommunity provides continuing therapy against the creeping doubt as to whether, after all, one may not be wrong and the majority right. To fulfill its functions of providing social support for the deviant body of "knowledge," the countercommunity must provide a strong sense of solidarity among its members (a "fellowship of the saints" in a world rampant with devils) and it must be quite closed vis-à-vis the outside ("Be not yoked together with unbelievers"); in sum, it must be a kind of ghetto. ~ Peter L. Berger

There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem. ~ Pierre De Coubertin

But where shall happiness be found if a reciprocal love does not procure it? ~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone sees the invisible ~ Richard Of Saint Victor

I needed to believe that those on whom I depended for my orientations were more fixed and enduring that myself. So as to know where to return to. So as to continue existing. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality. ~ Pierre Bayard

Creativity is to think more efficiently. ~ Pierre Reverdy

At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing. ~ Jerry Della Femina

Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Guilt simply says that you are a sinner. And the feeling of shame simply shows you that you need not be a sinner, that you are meant to be a saint. If you are a sinner it is only because of your unconsciousness; you are not a sinner because the society follows a certain morality and you are not following it. ~ Rajneesh

Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice. ~ Pierre Jean George Cabanis

Once again I have rubbed shoulders with a truth without fully comprehending it. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty? ~ Saint Augustine

Sometimes he remembered how he had heard that soldiers in war when entrenched under the enemy's fire, if they have nothing to do, try hard to find some occupation the more easily to bear the danger. To Pierre all men seemed like those soldiers, seeking refuge from life: some in ambition, some in cards, some in framing laws, some in women, some in toys, some in horses, some in politics, some in sport, some in wine, and some in governmental affairs. "Nothing is trivial, and nothing is important, it's all the same - only to save oneself from it as best one can," thought Pierre. "Only not to see it, that dreadful it! ~ Leo Tolstoy

Since once again, Lord - though this time not in the forests of the Aisne but in the steppes of Asia - I have neither bread, nor wine, nor altar, I will raise myself beyond these symbols, up to the pure majesty of the Real itself; I, your priest, will make the whole earth my altar and on it will offer you all the labours and sufferings of the world.

Over there, on the horizon, the sun has just touched with light the outermost fringe of the eastern sky. Once again, beneath this moving sheet of fire, the living surface of the earth wakes and trembles, and once again begins its fearful travail. I will place on my paten, O God, the harvest to be won by this renewal of labour. Into my chalice I shall pour all the sap which is to be pressed out this day from the earth's fruits.

My paten and my chalice are the depths of a soul laid widely open to all the forces which in a moment will rise up from every corner of the earth and converge upon the Spirit. Grant me the remembrance and the mystic presence of all those whom the light is now awakening to the new day . . .

Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: 'This is my Body'. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: 'This is my Blood'. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] ~ Pierre Corneille

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times ... You know ... when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. ~ Alexander Pope

Protection From Illness

Sheikh Ali bin Idrees Yaqoobi (r.a) states that once his spiritual guide, Sheikh Ali bin Haiti (r.a) took him to al-Ghawth al-A'zam (r.a) and presented him in the court of the great Saint. Sheikh Ali bin Idrees (r.a) states: "Al-Ghawth al-A'zam Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (r.a) was wearing a shawl during this time. He removed the shawl and placed it over me and said, 'From now on, you will be protected from all illnesses'. From that day on until now, and I am 65 years old, I have never been ill ~ Hazrat Shaykh Sayyid Abdul Kadir Jilani