Aelred Of Rievaulx Quotes

#1. Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of an open mind, and you cultivate a sense of concern for others' well-being, then, no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep your inner peace. - Author: Dalai Lama

#2. Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books. - Author: Susan Hill

#3. Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now ... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind. (p. 29) - Author: Aelred Of Rievaulx

#4. No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy. - Author: Aelred Of Rievaulx

#5. I think that period dramas just need zombies. - Author: Lily James

#6. The secret is this: When you have the single mind, you look on your circumstances as God-given opportunities for the furtherance of the gospel, and you rejoice at what God is going to do instead of complaining about what God did not do. - Author: Warren W. Wiersbe

#7. Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor. - Author: Aelred Of Rievaulx

#8. Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one. - Author: Aelred Of Rievaulx

#9. Now I wanted to be acknowledged, but I feared it. - Author: Margaret Atwood

#10. In love there are two things - bodies and words. - Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#11. As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss ... - Author: Aelred Of Rievaulx

#12. Aurora is right, Willa said, sounding sad to be agreeing with her. - Author: Amanda Hocking

#13. The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is. - Author: Aelred Of Rievaulx