Paraclete Quotes

#1. Immortal honour, endless fame, Attend the Almighty Father's name: The Saviour Son be glorified, Who for lost man's redemption died; And equal adoration be, Eternal Paraclete, to Thee. Amen. - RABANUS MAURUS (9TH C.); TRANSLATED BY JOHN DRYDEN (1631

David P. Gushee

#2. The wilderness is cracked and browned But through the water pale and thin Still shine the unoffending feet And there above the painter set 15 The Father and the Paraclete. .

T. S. Eliot

#3. Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These three are one [thing], not one [Person], as it is said, 'I and my Father are One,' in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number.

Tertullian

#4. It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless Paraclete beleaguered with all limbo's clamor.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Eliphas Levi

#6. It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so in awe of her that I recently had my assistant search online for her film Queen Christina [1933]. I cherish that rare DVD like a precious keepsake now.

Giovanna Cau

#7. You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

Linda Ronstadt

#8. The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

Patrick F. McManus

#9. Thousands of miles away, in a crowded theater that thunders with applause for the man onstage, hidden in the shadows formed between disused pieces of scenery backstage, Celia Bowen curls herself into a ball and cries.

Erin Morgenstern

#10. Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

C.S. Lewis

#11. Your imagination has an impressive reach."
"Or my boredom an impressive scope.

Julie Anne Long

#12. I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

Eddie Izzard

#13. And the Angelfucker makes his move.

Sylvain Reynard

#14. I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

#15. We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair