T. S. Eliot Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Christian Quotes

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

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Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

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To make an end is to make a beginning.

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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

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Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

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Do I dare disturb the universe?

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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

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