Léon Bloy wrote: ‘Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint
– Peter Kreeft
Related Quotes:
- You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint. – Peter Kreeft
- If a criminal was once a saint & a saint was once a criminal, then who is the criminal & who is the saint? – Sanchit Gupta
- The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy-”that is every man’s tragedy. – Philip Roth
- One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. – Idries Shah
- Dealing with Dillan being a jerk can mess up any saint on a good day. And you know I’m no saint. – Kate Evangelista
- I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. – Nelson Mandela
- It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray. – Peter Kreeft
- The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times. – Peter Kreeft
- The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin! – Peter Kreeft
- There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy. – Peter Kreeft
- It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. – Peter Kreeft
- Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on. – Peter Kreeft
- Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are. – Peter Kreeft
- Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto. – Peter Kreeft
- Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. – Peter Kreeft
- My sister wrote letters to the dead and hid them in her bedroom drawers.I wrote imaginary letters in my head to living. – Renee Ruin
- You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three – Michael Connelly
- The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done. – Lon Bloy
- There is only one misery . . . not to be saints. – Lon Bloy
- Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence. – Lon Bloy
- Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. – Orson Scott Card
- Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
- Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
- Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself. – Anthony Trollope
- Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening. – Kamand Kojouri
- Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable. – Sarvesh Jain
- It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of. – Jocelyn Murray
- This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. – Rachel Higginson
- Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy. – Daniel Prokop
- Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness – Peter Heg
- On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations. – Peter Heg
- I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say. – Oscar Wilde
- Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer. – Oswald Chambers
- To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life. – W Ian Thomas
- Nothing,’ wrote Tolstoy, ‘can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. – Gretchen Rubin
- Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. – Jeanette Winterson
- Love without restraint makes one saint and the other faint the sweetest face and the tenderest embrace bring the sun to every place in such grace. – Ana Claudia Antunes
- Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. – Hermann Hesse
- You weren’t picky about who got hurt. Still aren’t. So don’t preach at us like you’re some kind of saint. You’re just another sinner. – Rachel Caine
- Character isn’t all about becoming a saint or perfect. No one is perfect! There are areas we all are working on to improve and fine tune.. – Assegid Habtewold