Father Damien famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.
-- Father Damien

#Faith #Blessed #Would Be
Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever.
-- Father Damien

#Hard Work #Heaven #Aspiration
I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.
-- Father Damien

#Jesus #Jesus Christ #Gains
I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.
-- Father Damien

#Doctors #Skills #Ideas
I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.
-- Father Damien

#Giving Up #Sorry #Islands
The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength... It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.
-- Father Damien

#Powerful #Heart #Mean

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.
And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.
Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field.
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.
Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me
Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. Iâ€™d found my happiness.
I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.

Father Damien famous quotes

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