Nun Quotes

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  Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Catholic, Religion, Popcorn

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, God, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.289, Image

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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  Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Happiness, Smile

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Quiet, Holy

  "It Is a Beauteous Evening" l. 1 (1807)

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• I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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  I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

  Joe Orton

  Envy, Body, Fifteen

  Entertaining Mr. Sloane act 1 (1964)

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• Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Jesus, Lifetime, Dump

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• I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Retirement, Women, Judging

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

  John Milton

  Majestic, Sober, Demure

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.191

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  We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Nature, Stars

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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  Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, New Year, Mother

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.17, New World Library

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  The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

  Victor Hugo

  Buddhism, Men, Glimpse

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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  A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Half, Priests

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.242, Knopf

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• The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Taught

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• What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

  Walker Percy

  Clothes, Looks, Superstitions

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Names, Sometimes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". Vanity Fair, www.imdb.com. April 1991.

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• In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Love, Atheist, Courtesans

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• Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Unhappy, Different, Sweden

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• I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

  Julie Andrews

  Thinking, Privacy, Concerned

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• I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.

  Valerie Harper

  Success, Mother, Strong

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• Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

  Corita Kent

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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• One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Stars, Memories, Eight

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