Douglas Steere Quotes

#1. Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ both because its parts are united to Christ through His divine mysteries and because through her Christ works in the world.

John Of Shanghai And San Francisco

#2. No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

Douglas V. Steere

#3. I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning ... rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

Anne Rice

#4. Work without contemplation is never enough.

Douglas V. Steere

#5. We burn out not because we don't care but because we don't grieve. We burn out because we have allowed our hearts to become so filled with loss that we have no room left to care.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#6. Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.

Douglas V. Steere

#7. You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate.

Alexa Vega

#8. In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

Douglas V. Steere

#9. Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

Douglas V. Steere

#10. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Aldous Huxley