Paulinus of Nola famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No other sentiment draws people to Jerusalem than the desire to see and touch the places where Christ was physically present, and to be able to say from their very own experience: 'We have gone into his tabernacle, and have worshipped in the places where his feet have stood.'
-- Paulinus of Nola

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Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.
-- Paulinus of Nola

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Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.
Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Paulinus of Nola famous quotes

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