Top 28 Vigils Quotes
#1. Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
Johannes Tauler
#2. The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.
William Shakespeare
#3. The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
John Dewey
#4. George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.
Mark McKinnon
#5. Good cannot be a single and universal general notion; if it were, it would not be predictable in all the categories, but only in one.
Aristotle.
#6. Nothing so readily renews the decrepit soul, and enables it to approach the Lord, as fear of God, attentiveness, constant meditation on the words of Scripture, the arming of oneself with prayer, and spiritual progress through the keeping of vigils.
Brock Bingaman
#7. The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
Angela Davis
#8. Don't be playful when I'm feeling emotional," I ordered.
To this, he strangely replied, "You get I'm a badass."
"Hard to miss, Deacon," I returned.
"Then don't tell me when to be playful. Badasses don't like that shit.
Kristen Ashley
#9. He gave a wry smile. With all this vigilant vigils on virginity, you would think the country would have controlled its population by now.
Mallika Nawal
#10. While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
Alexander Pope
#11. Repentance restores your relationship with God.
Jim George
#12. A bastard may have no imagination and then do one imaginative thing when you least expect it, said Espinoza.
Roberto Bolano
#13. An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#14. And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them around here.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#15. The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#16. Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.
David Livingstone
#17. The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.
J. Oswald Sanders
#18. Yowpee! I pulls my brandin' irons an' comes out a-bitin' the dust - a reg'lar Hoopalong Cassowary!
Walt Kelly
#19. Our connection to the teachings of Socrates, for instance, is through the written word of Plato, because Socrates was vehemently against the written word. Socrates thought that the book would do terrible things to our memories.
Clay A. Johnson
#20. O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense.
Dante Alighieri
#21. When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
Deepak Chopra
#22. Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.
Alexander Lowen
#23. Many young girls are ... becoming trained nurses,
whose gentle ministrations in the sick-room, skilled touch,
patient watchfulness and unwearied vigils,
are as great factors in the care of the sick,
as are the professional physicians.
Lydia Hoyt Farmer
#24. My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.
Daniel Handler
#25. The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#26. With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.
Ted Nugent
#27. Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity.
Joyce Carol Oates
#28. Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
Gaston Bachelard
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