Desire-Joseph Mercier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are.
-- Desire-Joseph Mercier

#Giving #Purpose
Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.
-- Desire-Joseph Mercier

#Sadness #Giving #Serenity
All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.
-- Desire-Joseph Mercier

#Doe #Charity #Action

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
I'd rather stimulate your mind than emulate your purpose
Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

Desire-Joseph Mercier famous quotes

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