Michel Quoist quotes

“The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.”
-- Michel Quoist

Source : Michel Quoist (1963). “Meaning Success”

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“The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.”
-- Michel Quoist

Source : Michel Quoist (1963). “Meaning Success”

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“Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.”
-- Michel Quoist

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“Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.”
-- Michel Quoist

Source : Michel Quoist (1963). “Meaning Success”

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“If we knew how to listen to God, we should hear him speaking to us, for God does speak. He speaks in his Gospel; he speaks also through life - that new Gospel to which we ourselves add a page each day.”
-- Michel Quoist

Source : "Prayers".

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“We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.”
-- Michel Quoist

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“We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.”
-- Michel Quoist

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“All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.”
-- Michel Quoist

Source : Michel Quoist (1963). “Meaning Success”

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“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

“Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.”

“You have to trust your body to take care of you.”

“You are not a body. You have a body. You are a soul.”

“Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves”

Source : Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”, Philadelphia and New York : J.B. Lippincott

“Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.”

“A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”