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 anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)

“The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)