Nun Quotes

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

Fulton J. Sheen

Catholic, Religion, Popcorn

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

Mother Teresa

Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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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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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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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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Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

Inspirational, Wise, Courage

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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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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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Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

Pema Chodron

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Helen Prejean

Forgiveness, Christian, Mistake

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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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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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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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Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

J. D. Salinger

Laughing, Might, Wells

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I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

Sheryl Lee

Kids, Play, Want

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

Anna Kournikova

Sports, Teenager, Dresses

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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Mother Teresa

Love, Positive, Marriage

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I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness

Julian Clary

Forgiveness, Interesting, Correspondence

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I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

Martha Plimpton

Strong Women, Character, Sick

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I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Andrew Greeley

Writing, Disability, Fingers

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All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

Bill Murray

Dance, Mom, Kids

Bill Murray, George Peper (1999). “Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf”, Doubleday Books

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