Lubich Chiara Quotes

#1. Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.

Chiara Lubich

#2. If you aren't breaking tackles, you aren't doing anything.

Priest Holmes

#3. Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

Anthony Wayne

#4. In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven

Chiara Lubich

#5. That all may be one." We were born for these words, for unity, to contribute toward its fulfillment in the world.

Chiara Lubich

#6. The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

Henri Nouwen

#7. Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Ouida

#8. Even when your heart was hurting, there was something so hopeful about reading a book filled with love. The pages were somewhat of a reminder that maybe one day I would be

Brittainy C. Cherry

#9. After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

Henry Watson Fowler

#10. More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason.

George Carlin

#11. Cowboys don't go around breaking hearts.

Missy Lyons

#12. It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'

Aasif Mandvi

#13. Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love

Chiara Lubich

#14. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Albert Camus

#15. He realized with sudden clarity that the power axis in a conflict shifted once your adversary had heard you plead for divine intervention while her hands and mouth and body brought you to screaming climax on her kitchen table.

Jane Rainwater

#16. I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow ... it is the honest state before the apple.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. Ironically, really good work often appears to be effortless. People will say, "Why didn't I think of that?" They won't see the years of toil and sweat that went into it.

Austin Kleon

#18. I remember When I was a star In the night A moving, burning ember Amid the bright Clouds of star fire Going deathward To the womb. - JOHN WHITESIDE PARSONS, untitled

George Pendle