Rosary Beads Quotes

• The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Faith, Drama, Book

  "The World's First Love".

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• The power of the rosary is beyond description.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Rosary, Description, Praying The Rosary

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• Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Weather, Two, Rosary

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• The Rosary is the book of the blind.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Book, Rosary, Blind

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.213, Ignatius Press

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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Snakes, Enemy, Wish

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• The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

  John McGahern

  Book, Thinking, Church

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• I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

  Christopher Columbus

  Men, Glasses, Dozen

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.46

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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Snakes, Crow, Enemy

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• It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Hero, Finance, Beads

  "The League of Youth and Pillars of Society".

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• The next person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ass.

  Joe Biden

  Religious, Rosary, Next

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• Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.

  Abe Ajay

  Art, Snakes, Historical

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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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• 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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• My aunt had given me these rosary beads that were glow-in-the-dark. So all of a sudden I look down and they're glowing, and I'm looking toward the door and thinking, "Oh, my God, I don't want anything to come though here. I'm not worthy, I'm not ready." I didn't want to be one of those kids who sees Our Lady of Fatima.

  Susan Sarandon

  Kids, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Then, when people saw you strolling around at high noon holding your rosary beads, they’d think, ‘Well, that can’t be a vampire.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Thinking, People, Vampire

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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, Rosary, Matter

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• Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Catholic, Rosary, Beads

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