St. Gregory Quotes

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.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

The free man is the man with no fears.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

Life isn't a race. It's a relay.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

That which He has not assumed He has not healed.

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.

You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, but by taking it slowly.

For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?

May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.

It is impossible for one to live without tears who considers things exactly as they are.

You're a parasite for sore eyes.

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter.

I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.

Pray to Saint Philomena, What ever you ask from her, She will obtain for you.

Your day usually follows the direction of the corners of your mouth. So SMILE.

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.