Quoist Quotes

#1. How do you tell the difference between carelessness and passion?" Claire asked as they paced back along the edge of the marsh. "Is there one? I meane, really, is there any way to love a person without the hell beat out of you for it?

Tiffany Baker

#2. Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.

Michel Quoist

#3. The truth is rarely pure

Oscar Wilde

#4. The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

Michel Quoist

#5. Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

Michel Quoist

#6. It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

Richard Whately

#7. We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.

Michel Quoist

#8. Live the way you want to live but try to listen what others have to say too. You can always disagree but try to find what is the alternative of disagreement.

Santosh Kalwar

#9. My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country.

Malgorzata Szumowska

#10. All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.

Michel Quoist

#11. We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

Michel Quoist

#12. I didn't have a drill, so I had to make my own. First I heated a long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob, creating a handle. I placed the nail back on the coals until it became red hot, then used it to bore holes into both sets of plastic blades.

William Kamkwamba

#13. If we knew how to listen to God, we should hear him speaking to us, for God does speak. He speaks in his Gospel; he speaks also through life - that new Gospel to which we ourselves add a page each day.

Michel Quoist

#14. I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It's a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt.

Henry Cavill

#15. I won't just have a job; I'll have a calling. I'll challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down, I'll get back up. I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I'll strive to be the grittiest.

Angela Duckworth

#16. The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

Michel Quoist