Diocese Quotes

#1. In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.

John Strachan

#2. In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.

John Strachan

#3. Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.

Pope Benedict XVI

#4. So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world; and do what? To set people's hearts on fire, to do what the Son of God did. He came to set the world on fire in order to inflame it with His love.

Vincent De Paul

#5. I have somewhere read of a wise bishop who in a visit to his diocese found an old woman whose only prayer consisted in the single interjection "Oh!-
"Good mother" said he to her, "continue to pray in this manner; your prayer is better than ours." This better prayer is mine also.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#6. Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

Rowan Williams

#7. Because people understand that the diocese is trying to help the members of that group feel more connected to their church, the church they belong to by virtue of their baptism.

James Martin

#8. People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Franz Kafka

#9. Everything will be solar in 30 years.

Ralph Nader

#10. Once upon a time
I fell in love
Lost myself
And find another one.

Arzum Uzun

#11. A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen

Gayle Forman

#12. The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.

Landon Liboiron

#13. No great stars above her. Only a blackness that hurt to look at. Had the distant suns abandoned their birthplace? Earth was dying and the stars were gone like adulterous celestial lovers seeking a new terrestrial mate. She did not blame them. We were never worth shining for, she thought.

C.J. Anderson

#14. People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Marc Newson

#15. I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

Samuel L. Jackson

#16. Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

Adrian Beltre

#17. I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.

Hannah Moskowitz

#18. I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times, and I think that that's weirdly healthier than not doing it at all - even though I really hope it ends soon because, you know, how many decades can we do that?

Justin Vernon

#19. Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

Francis Marion

#20. Lawful heart, did any one ever see such freckles? And hair as red as carrots!

L.M. Montgomery

#21. When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

Sinclair Lewis