What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.
— Francis of Assisi
Powerful Great Ones quotations
Love hard when there is love to be had.
Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells.
For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other.
If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things.
He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.
You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.
Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle.
Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
Sometimes God lets you be in a situation that only He can fix so that you can see that He is the One who fixes it. Rest. He's got it.
Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience.
No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal.
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.
God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one.
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
You have one business on earth – to save souls.
At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit.
And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic.
Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.
I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
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