Trinity Saint David

Famous quotes containing the words trinity, saint and/or david:

    Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn’t have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)