St. Gregory Quotes

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

Remember God more often than you breathe.

We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.

Who gives you the day will give you also the things necessary for the day.

Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.

I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on Christ.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

God's name is not known; it is wondered at.

When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.