Carthusians Quotes

#1. There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited to those whom God has called to the former, which is in itself more excellent.

Vincent De Paul

#2. The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.

Ann Kidd Taylor

#3. I never touch it. Not directly, anyway. I always use a glass.

Anistatia R. Miller

#4. The world is made of stairs; some go up and some go down. . . .

Wally Lamb

#5. You spend long moments worrying and wondering only to see the wash up on the shore of a sea of wasted hours. Only to see them stranded on the island of foolishness. He wants that time back. He wants that energy back.

Travis Thrasher

#6. All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.

Hephzibah Menuhin

#7. I like when things happen organically and make sense.

Kristen Taekman

#8. A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Daniel Webster

#9. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.

Steven Pressfield

#10. I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Oriana Fallaci

#11. The pain in her body came first, an intense surge of fire that raged like lava through her veins.
But it could not compare with what followed after.
A wail rose up from her depths. It left her as an inhuman cry.
Finally, she remembered everything.

Kelly Creagh