#sai

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#opposite #said #say #something #you

I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings, and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly love this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#edward-said #literary-criticism #literature #postmodernism #love

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#effort #equality #great #justice #love

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#religious #sainthood #inspirational

We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang. ↗

— China Miéville

#hunches #inspiration #saints #inspirational

Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again? ↗

— St. Ignatius of Antioch

#early-christianity #patristics #saints #men

God’s love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God ↗

— Arsenie Boca

#inspirational #saints #spirituality #inspirational

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ↗

— Harold Ross

#back #day #few #filled #his

Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear. ↗

— Gemma Galgani

#christianity #eucharist #inspirational #religion #saint

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#latter-day-saints #lds #maxwell #mormon #neal