Quotes About Consecrated Life

#1. May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives.

Pope Francis

#2. When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs ...

Pope John Paul II

#3. Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#4. Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.

Pope Benedict XVI

#5. With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#6. They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

Pope Francis

#7. A consecrated space experientially reminds you that there is much more to life than you think.

Jaggi Vasudev

#8. A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.

Mary Baker Eddy

#9. It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Jose P. Rizal

#10. A thought is symbolic of all things processed through the laboratory of life's DNA.

C.C. Wyatt

#11. A lot of shows have couples with issues inside the relationship.

Michael Trucco

#12. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

D. Todd Christofferson

#13. The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Watts

#14. The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

Sarah Dessen

#15. Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.

Marie Curie

#16. Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

Walter Bagehot

#17. The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#18. To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#19. Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside the normal bounds of womanhood.

Ariel Levy

#20. I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#21. If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.

Alexander MacLaren

#22. I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart.

Dwight L. Moody

#23. Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

Samuel Smiles

#24. IMPERMANENCE
Driftsand of the hours. Quietly disappearing,
continuously, even the happily consecrated design.
Life blows away, always: pillars already rise
without connection, carrying nothing but empty air.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#25. Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

Eldridge Cleaver

#26. It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

Rudolf Steiner

#27. I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

Barbara Kruger

#28. A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.

Ellen G. White

#29. If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?

Douglas Coupland