Rosary Quotes - Page 4

O Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, I would like to be filled with love for You; keep me closely united with You, may my heart be near to Yours. I want to be to You like the apostle John. O Mary of the Rosary, keep me recollected when I say these prayers of yours; bind me forever, with your rosary, to Jesus of the Blessed Sacrament. Blessed be Jesus, my love.

Pope John XXIII

Jesus, Prayer, Blessed

Pope John XXIII, (2000). “Journal of a Soul”, p.50, A&C Black

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... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.

Mary McCarthy

Easter, Prayer, Latin

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In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

Robert Barron

Prayer, Mean, Mind

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The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

Pope Leo XIII

Christian, Mind, Way

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Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Prayer, Names, Ninety Nine

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Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Life, Laughter, Life Is

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Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered.

Janet Evanovich

Mirrors, Matter, Silver

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A priest is sent to Alaska. A bishop goes up to visit one year later. The bishop asks, How do you like it up here? The priest says, If it wasn't for my Rosary, and 2 martinis a day, I'd be lost. Bishop, would you like a martini? Yes. Rosary, get the bishop a martini!

Henny Youngman

Alaska, Years, Bishops

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The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

A. D. Coleman

Eye, Past, Might

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Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

Saadi

Prayer, People, Religion

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Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

Kiki Smith

Spiritual, Thinking, Quality

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The Rosary, especially prayed in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, is a powerful means of spiritual grace. In all of our efforts to promote the sanctity of human life, prayer is our first and strongest resource. May we rely upon the power of our Lord's presence in the Blessed Sacrament and the intercession of His Blessed Mother to guide and help us in fostering a greater respect for human life and an end to abortion in our society.

Thomas Vose Daily

Mother, Spiritual, Prayer

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This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.

Dana Gioia

Prayer, Loss, Past

Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.65, Graywolf Press

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One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.

Susan Sarandon

Blessed, Night, Glowing

Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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A mother has a unique perspective. Nobody sees the life of the child the way the child’s mother does—not even the father. This is Mary’s perspective of Jesus life. It seems to me that every genuine Christian, not just Catholics, should be interested in that perspective—and not just interested, but fascinated. In the rosary we ponder the life of Jesus through the eyes of his mother. This is an incredibly powerful experience if we enter into it fully

Matthew Kelly

Christian, Mother, Jesus

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I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.

Hilaire Belloc

Catholic, Thank God, Down And

"The Life of Hilaire Belloc". Book by Robert Speaight, 1957.

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There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence. They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary.

Bill Whittle

Book, Emotional, Self

"Rafts". Introduction by Bill Whittle to his book "An American Civilization", web.archive.org. June 18, 2006.

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The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mind, Way, Beads

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And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?

James Joyce

Morning, Tired, Heart

James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.158, Courier Corporation

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Apparently the pro-choice types who jump up and down in the street demanding that you keep your rosaries off their ovaries are entirely relaxed about the government getting its bureaucratics all over your lymphatics.

Mark Steyn

Government, Choices, Over You

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A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have known as many men as there are beads on her aunt's rosary. No happy medium! Either a nun or a monster! God's bosom or sensual passions! It would, perhaps, be better to put her in a convent, since we put hysterical women in the Saltpetriere! She does not know vice, she invents it!" That was ten years ago before the day our story begins and... Raoule was not a nun.

Rachilde

Passion, Aunt, Men

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When I grew up in the church, we were praying because the Communists were going to come over and hang you upside down on a cross, and I so wanted to be a good person, and I had these rosary beads that I would sleep with every night, and I just wanted the blessed Virgin to be on my side.

Susan Sarandon

Blessed, Sleep, Night

Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

Laura Hillenbrand

Book, Home, Sleep

"Seabiscuit: An American Legend". Book by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001.

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The rosary is a weapon against depression and hopelessness.

Benedict Groeschel

Weapons, Hopelessness

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A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.

Jack Kerouac

Angel, Talking, Thieves

Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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