Girolamo Quotes

#1. Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.

Sarah Dunant

#2. I was about to add it was as likely a friendship as Lucifer and the Archangel Michael sharing a jug of ale, but I stopped myself. [Vincent]

Karen Maitland

#3. The world has come to such a state that one can no longer find anyone who does good.

Girolamo Savonarola

#4. Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.

Patti Smith

#5. The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell.

Girolamo Savonarola

#6. It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

Girolamo Savonarola

#7. God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

Girolamo Savonarola

#8. It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Bono

#9. Revere the Righteous One.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Girolamo Savonarola

#11. Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

Girolamo Savonarola

#12. People are suspect because they believe your ideology blinds you to equal application of the law, and the facts,

Joe Biden

#13. Don't be ashamed to learn from others.

Girolamo Savonarola

#14. She likes a rigged game.

Ken Kesey

#15. I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.

Girolamo Savonarola

#16. No free will of the creature can resist the will of God

Girolamo Zanchi

#17. Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

G.K. Chesterton

#18. He would never forget the feeling of that first year, the sense of freedom just being on his own gave him. He had his own room for the first time, his own money to spend as he wanted, his own food to buy and places to go and decisions to make; it was glorious, sublime.

Iain Banks

#19. If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

Girolamo Savonarola

#20. It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

Girolamo Savonarola

#21. I'd like to be a weak, boring housewife. Because then it would involve more acting. It would be challenging to do something like that.

Izabella Scorupco

#22. Lord! teach me the way my soul should walk.

Girolamo Savonarola

#23. I lost my election because of my campaign, not because of what anyone else did.

Mitt Romney

#24. Life is chaos. Time is order.

V.E Schwab

#25. The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

Girolamo Savonarola

#26. Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.

Cassandra Clare

#27. I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

Kellyn Roth