Thomas Becket famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
-- Thomas Becket

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I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
-- Thomas Becket

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Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.
-- Thomas Becket

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Better are the blows of a friend than the flase kisses of an enemy.
-- Thomas Becket

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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.
The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is MadhusÃ¼dana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses

Thomas Becket famous quotes

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