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Father Inspirational Quotes (206)

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British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.
James Joyce
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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.
James Joyce
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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.
James Joyce
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
James Joyce
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
James Joyce
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The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom.
Maximilian Kolbe
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A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.
James Joyce
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Winds of May, that dance on the sea, Dancing a ring-around in glee From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded, In silvery arches spanning the air, Saw you my true love anywhere? Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away!
James Joyce
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In the measure that we pay attention and take care to carry out what we hear, God will always enlighten us and make us understand His will.
Dorotheus of Gaza
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It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.
James Joyce
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And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.
James Joyce
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I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death. . . Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me!
Fidelis of Sigmaringen
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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
James Joyce
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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
James Joyce
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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
James Joyce
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
James Joyce
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Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.
James Joyce
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There's no police like Holmes.
James Joyce
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In the particular is contained the universal.
James Joyce
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We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.
Solanus Casey
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
James Joyce
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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
James Joyce
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
James Joyce
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
James Joyce
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