"God is everywhere, in the very air I breathe, yes everywhere, but in His Sacrament of the Altar He is as present actually and really as my soul within my body; in His Sacrifice daily offered as really as once offered on the Cross"

-- Elizabeth Ann Seton

#Sacrifice Quotes #Air Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: â€œIf this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.â€ My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose youâ€™re not a lady? she says.”
“I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.”
“The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.”
“The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.”
“Octoberâ€” You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your apartment, has requested that I inform you of his intent to visit after â€˜tending to some business at the Queenâ€™s Court.â€™ I recommend wearing something clinging, as that may distract him from whatever he wishes to lecture you about this time. Hopefully, itâ€™s your manners. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. â€”Tybalt”
“The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.
“Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god, or who owns no being superior to nature. It is compounded of the two terms ... signifying without God.”

Source : Richard Watson (1832). “A Biblical and theological dictionary”, p.113
“For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper.”

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