DJ Paul Quotes

[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.

There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.

The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

Meditation on Jesus Christ crucified is a precious balm which sweetens all pains.

La musique avant toute chose.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

The #1 business opportunity for those who want to create new wealth is educating consumers about products and services that will improve their lives.

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon her intellectual inferiority.

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

Sin doesn't always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That's why we need grace to see sin for what it really is - dark, dangerous, enslaving and destructive.

Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.

Your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and esteem it as the great central truth of God's revelation to men.

In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.

Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.

The preachers are the greatest problem in the United States of America.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

Practice humility and patience.

Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.