Bakhita Quotes

#1. Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

Narciso Rodriguez

#2. ...Oh, kiss a flaming goat if I know what I mean.

Robert Jordan

#3. Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.

Ellen G. White

#4. If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today ... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone ... we must be compassionate!

Josephine Bakhita

#5. Walt Whitman was right about at least one thing. You will contradict yourself. You are large. You contain multitudes.

Matt Haig

#6. The person you love best, you share the world with. When that person's gone the world remains but it isn't the same thing, it's at a distance.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh how many souls would be won!

Josephine Bakhita

#8. Since the family is the fundamental unit of society, the disintegration of the family inevitably and inexorably is leading to the disintegration of society itself.

Joseph A. Cirrincione

#9. Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage.

Josephine Bakhita

#10. What a beautiful truth of faith this is for our lives: the mercy of God! God's love for us is so great, so deep; it is an unfailing love, one which always takes us by the hand and supports us, lifts us up and leads us on.

Pope Francis