Matutina Quotes

#1. The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.

Tana French

#3. Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.

Paul Of The Cross

#4. When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

Mark Miller

#5. When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#6. I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

Peter Blegvad

#7. God likes to appear to us in this way. He does not come in the form of God but in the form of man, without making any declaration that He is Jehovah God.

Witness Lee

#8. Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.

Ivan Reitman

#9. the perfect time is when you turn the present into what you want it to be

Anna Levine

#10. As midnight came, he named every star in the sky after her.

Frauke Heyde