Saint John Of The Cross Quotes

#1. By welcoming a marginalized person whose body is wounded and by welcoming the sinner whose soul is wounded, we put our credibility as Christians on the line. Let us always remember the words of Saint John of the Cross: In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

Pope Francis

#2. The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

Nora Ephron

#3. I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics.

Jen Kirkman

#4. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

Scott Westerfeld

#5. God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.

John Of The Cross

#6. I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what technique means. But I do know what experience is. I know in my gut when I've done a scene right.

Elaine Stritch

#7. God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform.

John Of The Cross

#8. In love; it's only those who trust each other, who can make it until the end.

Auliq Ice

#9. They had nothing in common except for existing in the same time and space

Pascal Garnier

#10. They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.

John Of The Cross

#11. I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus Waters

John Green

#12. I worry and I wonder. And when I'm with her I'm happy. This is probably what love is. But I believe there is only one love. It would be nice if there was one more ... but there is only one. I think I was giving that love to Hae Ryung before she even matured.

John The Apostle

#13. Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.

Charles Colson

#14. Poor house! I thought, and at moments I would find myself stroking one of its whitepainted doorframes as if I were petting a horse's nose: gently, slowly, trying to soothe it back to calmness.

Hanya Yanagihara

#15. Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

Saint John Chrysostom

#16. Who teaches the soul if not God?

John Of The Cross

#17. In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

Alice Meynell

#18. Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.

John Of The Cross

#19. I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.

Larry King

#20. Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!

Statius