Bonaventure's Quotes

#1. In Bonaventure's view only one who is on a journey to God can really know God; faith seeks understanding through the path of love.

Ilia Delio

#2. Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

Fred Rogers

#3. The could never have explained Bonaventure anyway because there is no scientific word for miraculous.

Rita Leganski

#4. Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.

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#5. She looked at him and her heart tipped sideways.

Rachel Joyce

#6. Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God

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#7. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.

John Steinbeck

#8. I'd like to thank my wife, Anna. I love you more than rainbows, baby

Ryan Bingham

#9. God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only right now in this moment.

Steven James

#10. If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.

John K. Brown

#11. sometimes I hate you,"
she said.

Charles Bukowski

#12. The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

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#13. It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.

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#14. Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.

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#15. What's my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

Muhammad Ali

#16. The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.

Rita Leganski

#17. The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

Albert Einstein

#18. For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.

Jasper Fforde

#19. In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.

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#20. Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

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#21. Serpine: You have caused me so much trouble over the years detective. It's almost a shame to end it
Skulduggery: You're surrendering?

Derek Landy

#22. Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.

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#23. Come, let us give a little time to folly ... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

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#24. At the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.

Susan Wiggs

#25. The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.

David Bentley

#26. This is a dance for all the lovers
Takin' a chance for one another
Finally it's our time now

These are the times that we'll remember
Breaking the city's heart together
Finally it's our time now, it's our time now

Plain White T's

#27. Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.

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#28. To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

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#29. I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#30. Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

Xi Jinping