Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick William Faber

Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather round it, and group themselves there as satellites; for others celebrate his mysteries; this is Himself. It is the universal devotion. No one can be without it, in order to be a Christian. How can a man be a Christian who does not worship the living Presence of Christ?

Frederick William Faber

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

Frederick William Robertson

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

Frederick William Robertson

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

Frederick William Robertson

Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.

Frederick William Robertson

Christ within us, the hope of glory.

Frederick William Robertson

The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

Frederick William Robertson

My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your souls and God succeed in keeping you away, all is lost. Right into the Presence you must force your way, with no concealment, baring the soul with all its ailments before Him, asking, not the arrest of the consequences of sin, but the cleansing of the conscience " from dead works to serve the living God," so that if you must suffer, you will suffer as a forgiven man.

Frederick William Robertson

The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.

Frederick William Robertson

Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.

Freeman Dyson

I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.

Freeman Dyson

The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian. ...It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.

Fred Barnes

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

Erich Fromm

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.

Even though we can't require it, most guys compete and play in tournaments over Christmas on their own.

Al Goodman

Even if this spill doesn't get any worse, the damage from it -- and that's of course not sure -- a leading fishing industry executive says that the Christmas season is already ruined by this spill for several thousand fishermen and their families.

Even in this business, it is customer service that's important. It might be Christmas, New Year's, Christmas Eve -- times you don't want to go, but you've gotta.

Between the championship game and the Hawaii Bowl, I don't think I need a Christmas.

Being a professional circuit fisherman, Jay has a unique position to connect with millions of sporting men concerning what Jesus Christ has done in his life, ... Jay has a tremendous testimony and it is a privilege to host him in Southeast Texas.

E. B. White

because I'm trying to live a Christian life and I want to do that for what happened with him but I've had some dark hours. It has completely destroyed me physically and mentally.

Everyone's winding down for Christmas so volumes are coming off, but that's pretty normal for this time of year.

Mario Batali

Every region has its own specialties, and whether it was Christmas Eve and the seafood dinner and the seven courses, whichever family you were from, it's a visceral part of your life.

Dorothy McGuire

Actually, she was supposed to be a Christmas baby.

Hugh Downs

Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.

Stephen Graham Jones

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

John Daly

So, ... what do you want for Christmas?

June Diane Raphael

One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'

The monetary policy committee is still waiting for evidence on Christmas (retail) sales and wage negotiations. Then it will cushion the decline in the economy in a context of CPI (inflation) moderation.

Sarah Taylor

During the Christmas season online retailers ship two or three times what they would normally do.

Marcus Samuelsson

The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it's a very family-centered holiday.

The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.

I've never experienced anything like this. It all started at a Christmas tournament. Every day, it's somebody new.

I've always wondered what it is like to lose everything in a fire. This time of year, it's just even more devastating. But they made it easier. They just wanted to see their fellow man have Christmas too.