To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.
The worst of all States is the democratic State.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!
The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word of God, spoken in all things: in the material world, the Scriptures, the Church, and sacraments and, sometimes most threateningly, in our fellow human beings. To listen at prayer is to take the chance of hearing the voice of Christ in the poor, the weak, those whom we love and those whom we do not love.
The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years.
How do these celebrities stay so impossibly thin? Simple: They have full-time personal trainers, who advise them on nutrition, give them pep talks, and shoot them with tranquilizer darts whenever they try to crawl, on hunger-weakened limbs, toward the packet of rice cakes that constitutes the entire food supply in their 37,000-square-foot mansions. For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).