Charles E. Hummel Quotes

#1. A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.

Charles Hummel

#2. I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.

Gemma Galgani

#3. Situations are like that. They take up all the time you used to use for working and eating and sleeping. They soak up your whole life like a black hole in space soaks up the sunlight. And then, where you used to have a life, all you have left is a situation.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#4. At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!

Watchman Nee

#5. The need itself is not the call.

Charles E. Hummel

#6. Why did Iwanski risk so much to save Jews? He told the author, "When a Jew cries, I cry. When a Jew suffers, I am a Jew. All are of my nation, for I am a man.

Dan Kurzman

#7. I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.

Emayatzy Corinealdi

#8. Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

Matthieu Ricard

#9. We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Charles Hummel

#10. It's not like I don't have words in my head. I'm good with words. I'm great. On my own. In the dark. They come flooding. Sometimes I can't sleep I'm swimming in so many words.

Cath Crowley

#11. There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Edith Wharton

#12. The Death Star was gone. Had the Empire itself fallen with it?

Claudia Gray

#13. Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life ... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Charles Hummel

#14. Dance of the Sugar Plum Bikey. Yes, that's got a nice ring to it.

Louise Rennison

#15. Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

Ben Carson