Top 18 Rievaulx Quotes
#1. Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.
Susan Hill
#2. Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#3. During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline ... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
Augusto Pinochet
#4. Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
Natalia Ginzburg
#5. The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#6. Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.
Paul Guilfoyle
#7. As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss ...
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#8. I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
Eric Idle
#9. It is a great day for the great state of Texas. The last person being tested for Ebola has come back clean. So Texas is now Ebola free. This was a big week for them. They're now free of Ebola - and Democrats.
Craig Ferguson
#10. Eat, and the world will eat with you; starve, and the world will eat you.
Anthony Liccione
#11. Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#12. No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#13. Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now ... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind. (p. 29)
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#14. It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.
Samuel Johnson
#16. It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance.
Monica Johnson
#17. The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.
Caryll Houselander
#18. The Queen of Red watched on, with Katherine and the Silent Sister, all three of them studying me as if I were some puzzle that might be solved.
Mark Lawrence
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