St. Vincent Quotes

He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.

There are no short cuts to Heaven only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.

You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life.

Into the darkness they go the wise and the lovely.

Life is only this place this time and these people right here and now.

April Comes like an idiot babbling and strewing flowers.

Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Self-expression is for babies and seals where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.

Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.

Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves.

I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.

Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.