Aelred Quotes

#1. 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.

Susan Hill

#2. I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

Douglas Wilson

#3. To all pimps and whores a merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhea.

Graham Greene

#4. The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.

Aelred Of Rievaulx

#5. Life is currently quite frustrating. However, it feels good to be alive.

Eric Halvorsen

#6. Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

Christopher Paolini

#7. I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.

Rod Blagojevich

#8. 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 ...

Aelred Of Rievaulx

#9. Confidence is nothing more than believing in yourself, and believing in yourself is about doing the things you once didn't believe you could do

Steven Aitchison

#10. I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals.

Ron Davies

#11. I'm sometimes scared that I'm forgetting what my dad was like.

Ross Welford

#12. All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.

George W. Bush

#13. Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

Aelred Of Rievaulx

#14. 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.

Aelred Of Rievaulx

#15. Life is supposed to be fun! When you're having fun, you feel great and you receive great things! Having fun brings the life you want, and taking things too seriously brings a life you have to take seriously.

Rhonda Byrne

#16. 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.

Aelred Of Rievaulx

#17. 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)

Aelred Of Rievaulx

#18. Our town was christened Buyan, after the legend of a Slavic island that appeared, and disappeared, at will. That would later seem an eerie, and disconcerting, premonition.

A.B. Shepherd

#19. No matter what happens, please remember that I love you, hridaya patni. Promise me that you'll remember."
"It's a pet name our father used to call our mother. It means ... wife of my heart.

Colleen Houck

#20. I have been told that I'm easy to work with because I have an easy personality.

Cameron West