Gertrude Stein Quotes

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

Much prayer, but no piety.

Faith is not to be kept with him who keeps not faith with God

Be ...a preacher of piety, not an exactor of tithes...

The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

That clerical celibacy doesn't guarantee asceticism is obvious, any more than attending Mass guarantees prayerfulness (trust me on that one). But it preserves the call even when the system is corrupted.

My aim is just to remain as humble and as godly as I can be.

I never forget a friend.