Von Hildebrand Quotes

#1. My coaching philosophy? Determine your players talents and give them every weapon to get the most from those talents.

Don Shula

#2. Only the elites despise earning money.

Newt Gingrich

#3. That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

Steve Mariucci

#4. Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?

James Joyce

#5. Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#6. Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#7. Do you think that the Lord gave them to me for a decoration?

Alice Von Hildebrand

#8. There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#9. A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity ... I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect.

Dinkar Kalotra

#10. By living up to their calling, women will succeed in guaranteeing a proper recognition of the unique value of femininity and its crucial mission in the world.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#11. The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselves - in the sense of individuality as a unique divine thought - until we are reborn in Christ.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#12. For, just as love embodies the life of all virtues and expresses the inmost substance of all holiness, humility is the precondition and basic presupposition for the genuineness, the beauty, and the truth of all virtue.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#13. Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#14. The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#15. There is nothing more opposed to equality than identity.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#16. Happiness is love's outcome, never its motive. Where someone is loved he is an end in himself and certainly not a means toward something else. It is therefore of love's essence, wherever it is found, that the loved one seem precious, beautiful, and worthy of love.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#17. An old fool is the worst of all fools.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#18. I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

Tracy Morgan

#19. Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#20. There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#21. One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ ... than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#22. Feminism without femininity is a sham.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#23. The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).

Alice Von Hildebrand

#24. And overwhelmed. When someone reaches out and gives you a hand - for no other reason than to see your success - it's powerful. And rare.

Krista Ritchie

#25. Adversity is the hidden treasures of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?

Alice Von Hildebrand

#27. Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#28. Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#29. I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later.

Norman Rockwell

#30. If we indulge in any confidence which is not grounded on the Rock of ages, our confidence is worse than a dream, it will fall upon us, and cover us with its ruins, to our sorrow and confusion.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#31. To be conscious of one's weakness and to trust in God's help is the way to authentic strength and victory.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#32. Love is not concerned with a person's accomplishments, it is a response to a person's being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#33. Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#34. There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand