Benedict Joseph Labre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

  • Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  • Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  • Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.

  • Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

  • Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

  • If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

  • If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

  • I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

  • If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.