Top quotes by Saint Augustine

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Votes: 40

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. Votes: 39

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. Votes: 39

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. Votes: 31

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Votes: 25

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. Votes: 24

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. Votes: 21

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. Votes: 19

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. Votes: 19

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Votes: 19

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. Votes: 17

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. Votes: 16

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. Votes: 14

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet. Votes: 14

Love is the beauty of the soul. Votes: 12

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Votes: 11

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. Votes: 11

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. Votes: 10

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Votes: 10

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. Votes: 10

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Votes: 9

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. Votes: 8

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. Votes: 8

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. Votes: 8

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. Votes: 7

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before. Votes: 7

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. Votes: 6

God is best known in not knowing him. Votes: 5

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. Votes: 4

There is no possible source of evil except good. Votes: 2

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. Votes: 0

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. Votes: 0

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. Votes: 0

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. Votes: 0

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Votes: 0

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Votes: 0

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. Votes: 0

Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger. Votes: 0

For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'... Votes: 0

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen. Votes: 0

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. Votes: 0

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil. Votes: 0

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. Votes: 0

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see? Votes: 0

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism. Votes: 0

The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest. Votes: 0

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. Votes: 0

Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail. Votes: 0

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless Votes: 0

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Votes: 0

I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. Votes: 0

Patience is the companion of wisdom. Votes: 0

Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament. Votes: 0

Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.' Votes: 0

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps. Votes: 0

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. Votes: 0

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. Votes: 0

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God. Votes: 0

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) Votes: 0

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. Votes: 0

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. Votes: 0

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved! Votes: 0

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. Votes: 0

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell. Votes: 0

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend. Votes: 0

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us. Votes: 0

Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.... Votes: 0

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. Votes: 0

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. Votes: 0

A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering. Votes: 0

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? Votes: 0

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin. Votes: 0

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? Votes: 0

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. Votes: 0

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother. Votes: 0

"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness. Votes: 0

For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God. Votes: 0

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. Votes: 0

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. Votes: 0

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism. Votes: 0

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it. Votes: 0

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Votes: 0

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail. Votes: 0

When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips? Votes: 0

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page. Votes: 0

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for." Votes: 0

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. Votes: 0

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace . Votes: 0

In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners. Votes: 0

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. Votes: 0

He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour. Votes: 0

Without the Spirit we can neither love God nor keep His commandments. Votes: 0

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living. Votes: 0

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own. Votes: 0

He that is jealous is not in love. Votes: 0

He who labours, prays. Votes: 0

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. Votes: 0

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return. Votes: 0

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it. Votes: 0

The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time. Votes: 0

He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it. Votes: 0

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. Votes: 0

Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion. Votes: 0

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth. Votes: 0

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her. Votes: 0

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass. Votes: 0

Believe that you may understand, Votes: 0

Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive. Votes: 0

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence. Votes: 0

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. Votes: 0

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. Votes: 0

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you. Votes: 0

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. Votes: 0

Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God. Votes: 0

We come to God by love and not by navigation. Votes: 0

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled. Votes: 0

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee. Votes: 0

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist. Votes: 0

We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future. Votes: 0

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. Votes: 0

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Votes: 0

The greatest evil is physical pain. Votes: 0

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves. Votes: 0

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. Votes: 0

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. Votes: 0

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? Votes: 0

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. Votes: 0

Punishment is justice for the unjust. Votes: 0

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. Votes: 0

Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord. Votes: 0

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade. Votes: 0

Our heart is restless until it rests in You. Votes: 0

Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts. Votes: 0

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. Votes: 0

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? Votes: 0

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. Votes: 0

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Votes: 0

You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You. Votes: 0

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church. Votes: 0

There is no salvation outside the church. Votes: 0

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels. Votes: 0

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you. Votes: 0

You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not. Votes: 0

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. Votes: 0

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false. Votes: 0

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith. Votes: 0

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. Votes: 0

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things. Votes: 0

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual. Votes: 0

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. Votes: 0

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying. Votes: 0

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness Votes: 0

Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine. Votes: 0

One can't reach the Truth but trough Love. Votes: 0

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. Votes: 0

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace. Votes: 0

Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom. Votes: 0

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God. Votes: 0

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace. Votes: 0

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder. Votes: 0

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell. Votes: 0

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. Votes: 0

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. Votes: 0

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. Votes: 0

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. Votes: 0

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. Votes: 0

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. Votes: 0

The verdict of the world is conclusive. Votes: 0

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. Votes: 0

The purpose of all wars, is peace. Votes: 0

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. Votes: 0

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. Votes: 0

... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up. Votes: 0

...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life. Votes: 0

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless. Votes: 0

A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections. Votes: 0

A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world' Votes: 0

A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot Votes: 0

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline. Votes: 0

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent. Votes: 0

A marriage without children is the world without the sun. Votes: 0

A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing. Votes: 0

A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words Votes: 0

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart. Votes: 0

A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white. Votes: 0

All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants. Votes: 0

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me. Votes: 0

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses. Votes: 0

All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross. Votes: 0

All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself. Votes: 0

Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not. Votes: 0

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give. Votes: 0

An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor." Votes: 0

And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee? Votes: 0

And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity. Votes: 0

And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house. Votes: 0

And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God. Votes: 0

Anger is a weed; hate is a tree Votes: 0

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it. Votes: 0

As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants. Votes: 0

As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established. Votes: 0

Attract them by the way you live. Votes: 0

AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son. Votes: 0

Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church. Votes: 0

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not. Votes: 0

Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate. Votes: 0

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty. Votes: 0

Beauty is the brilliance of truth. Votes: 0

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. Votes: 0

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor. Votes: 0

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves. Votes: 0

Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe Votes: 0

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they. Votes: 0

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you. Votes: 0

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants. Votes: 0

Between urine and filth we are born. Votes: 0

Beware of bad Catholics. Votes: 0

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself. Votes: 0

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom. Votes: 0

By and by never comes. Votes: 0

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary]. Votes: 0

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty? Votes: 0

Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 "“ PL 38, 1472). Votes: 0

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God. Votes: 0

Charity is the root of all good works. Votes: 0

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow. Votes: 0

Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it. Votes: 0

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all. Votes: 0

Christ was born of a woman without the man. Votes: 0

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. Votes: 0

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour. Votes: 0

Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated. Votes: 0

Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice. Votes: 0

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man Votes: 0

Custom is second nature. Votes: 0

Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born. Votes: 0

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)! Votes: 0

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied. Votes: 0

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body? Votes: 0

Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.) Votes: 0

Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you." Votes: 0

Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you. Votes: 0

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. Votes: 0

Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe. Votes: 0

Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart. Votes: 0

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth. Votes: 0

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do. Votes: 0

Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain. Votes: 0

Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways. Votes: 0

Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated? Votes: 0

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. Votes: 0

Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you. Votes: 0

Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son. Votes: 0

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct. Votes: 0

Doubt is but another element of faith. Votes: 0

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul. Votes: 0

Eternity is the now that does not pass away. Votes: 0

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer Votes: 0

Every city is a living body. Votes: 0

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence. Votes: 0

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's. Votes: 0

Every infinity... is made finite to God. Votes: 0

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel. Votes: 0

Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth. Votes: 0

Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil). Votes: 0

Except he be willing, man cannot believe. Votes: 0

Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge. Votes: 0

Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one's flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself. Votes: 0

Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me. Votes: 0

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others. Votes: 0

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. Votes: 0

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next. Votes: 0

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more. Votes: 0

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people. Votes: 0

For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them. Votes: 0

For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets. Votes: 0

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth. Votes: 0

For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly. Votes: 0

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared. Votes: 0

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die. Votes: 0

For in our hope we are saved. Votes: 0

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much. Votes: 0

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know. Votes: 0

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall? Votes: 0

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise. Votes: 0

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not .... Votes: 0

For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows. Votes: 0

For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply 'today'...But you yourself are eternally the same. In your 'today' you will make all that is to exist tomorrow and thereafter, and in your 'today' you have made all that existed yesterday and for ever before. Votes: 0

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will. Votes: 0

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power. Votes: 0

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. Votes: 0

Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline. Votes: 0

Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them. Votes: 0

Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face. This alone I know, that without you all to me is misery, woe outside myself and woe within, and all wealth but penury, if it is not my God. Votes: 0

Give what You command and command what You will. Votes: 0

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking. Votes: 0

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good. Votes: 0

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves. Votes: 0

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity. Votes: 0

God gives where he finds empty hands. Votes: 0

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable. Votes: 0

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. Votes: 0

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. Votes: 0

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. Votes: 0

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them. Votes: 0

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. Votes: 0

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him. Votes: 0

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. Votes: 0

God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory. Votes: 0

God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that wherein He has erred. But as when a man repents of anything, he wishes to change what he has done; thus where you hear that God repents, look for an actual change. God does it differently from you, although He calls it by the name of repentance; for thou dost it, because you had erred; while He does it, because He avenges, or frees. Votes: 0

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect. Votes: 0

God without us will not as we without God cannot. Votes: 0

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God. Votes: 0

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too! Votes: 0

Grace alone brings about every good work in us. Votes: 0

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world. Votes: 0

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother. Votes: 0

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. Votes: 0

He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth. Votes: 0

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much. Votes: 0

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute. Votes: 0

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth. Votes: 0

He who created you without you will not justify you without you. Votes: 0

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist. Votes: 0

He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father. Votes: 0

He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will. Votes: 0

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing. Votes: 0

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself. Votes: 0

He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love. Votes: 0

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven. Votes: 0

He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon. Votes: 0

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth. Votes: 0

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls. Votes: 0

Hell was made for the inquisitive. Votes: 0

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith. Votes: 0

Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage. Votes: 0

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity. Votes: 0

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable. Votes: 0

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good. Votes: 0

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity. Votes: 0

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. Votes: 0

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue. Votes: 0

I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females. Votes: 0

I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures. Votes: 0

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me. Votes: 0

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake. Votes: 0

I believe in order to understand Votes: 0

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write. Votes: 0

I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within Votes: 0

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself? Votes: 0

I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church. Votes: 0

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable. Votes: 0

I err therefore I am. Votes: 0

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want. Votes: 0

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it. Votes: 0

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new! Votes: 0

I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love. Votes: 0

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters. Votes: 0

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. Votes: 0

I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves. Votes: 0

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me. Votes: 0

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit. Votes: 0

I was in love with loving. Votes: 0

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them. Votes: 0

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving. Votes: 0

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them. Votes: 0

I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering. Votes: 0

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light. Votes: 0

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped. Votes: 0

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself. Votes: 0

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide? Votes: 0

If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established. Votes: 0

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men. Votes: 0

If faith fails, prayer perishes. Votes: 0

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good? Votes: 0

If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart. Votes: 0

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me? Votes: 0

If the future and the past really exist, where are they? Votes: 0

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God. Votes: 0

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven... Votes: 0

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will... Votes: 0

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood. Votes: 0

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. Votes: 0

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. Votes: 0

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal. Votes: 0

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love. Votes: 0

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men. Votes: 0

If you comprehend, it is not God. Votes: 0

If you don't believe it you won't understand it. Votes: 0

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon. Votes: 0

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it. Votes: 0

If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless. Votes: 0

If you understand, it is not God. Votes: 0

If you understood him, it would not be God. Votes: 0

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. Votes: 0

Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin. Votes: 0

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity. Votes: 0

In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God. Votes: 0

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another. Votes: 0

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You. Votes: 0

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it. Votes: 0

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me. Votes: 0

In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all. Votes: 0

In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden. Votes: 0

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love. Votes: 0

In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn. Votes: 0

In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate. Votes: 0

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails. Votes: 0

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero. Votes: 0

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity. Votes: 0

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself? Votes: 0

It is a sin to judge any man by his post Votes: 0

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up. Votes: 0

It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured. Votes: 0

It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver. Votes: 0

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result. Votes: 0

It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam. Votes: 0

It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word. Votes: 0

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. Votes: 0

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed. Votes: 0

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits. Votes: 0

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not. Votes: 0

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty. Votes: 0

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning. Votes: 0

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud. Votes: 0

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. Votes: 0

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God. Votes: 0

It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer. Votes: 0

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation. Votes: 0

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men. Votes: 0

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection. Votes: 0

It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam. Votes: 0

It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so. Votes: 0

It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man? Votes: 0

It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them. Votes: 0

It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds. Votes: 0

Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary Votes: 0

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy. Votes: 0

Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars. Votes: 0

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms. Votes: 0

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate. Votes: 0

Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise. Votes: 0

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you. Votes: 0

Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace. Votes: 0

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you. Votes: 0

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor. Votes: 0

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you. Votes: 0

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God. Votes: 0

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times. Votes: 0

Let the Lord your God be your hope "“ seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself. Votes: 0

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me. Votes: 0

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it. Votes: 0

Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives. Votes: 0

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive. Votes: 0

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation. Votes: 0

Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed. Votes: 0

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom. Votes: 0

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you. Votes: 0

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself. Votes: 0

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee. Votes: 0

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee. Votes: 0

Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother. Votes: 0

Love and do as you will. Votes: 0

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love. Votes: 0

Love and say it with your life. Votes: 0

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens. Votes: 0

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved. Votes: 0

Love God, and do what you like. Votes: 0

Love God, then do what you will. Votes: 0

Love has reasons that reason knows not. Votes: 0

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Votes: 0

Love is ever new because it never groweth old. Votes: 0

Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love. Votes: 0

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love. Votes: 0

Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you. Votes: 0

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. Votes: 0

Make friends with angels. Votes: 0

Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free. Votes: 0

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator. Votes: 0

Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die. Votes: 0

Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb. Votes: 0

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life. Votes: 0

Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by. Votes: 0

Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself. Votes: 0

Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end. Votes: 0

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves Votes: 0

Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ. Votes: 0

My love is my weight. Because of it, I move. Votes: 0

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ. Votes: 0

My weight is my love. Votes: 0

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak. Votes: 0

Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden. Votes: 0

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse. Votes: 0

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much. Votes: 0

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor. Votes: 0

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old. Votes: 0

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed. Votes: 0

No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face. Votes: 0

No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility Votes: 0

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven. Votes: 0

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. Votes: 0

Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil. Votes: 0

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud. Votes: 0

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love. Votes: 0

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations. Votes: 0

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state. Votes: 0

Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. Votes: 0

Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness. Votes: 0

Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness. Votes: 0

Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made. Votes: 0

O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread... Votes: 0

O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed. Votes: 0

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will. Votes: 0

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet! Votes: 0

O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by. Votes: 0

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord. Votes: 0

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest. . . . And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them. Votes: 0

Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn. Votes: 0

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. Votes: 0

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new. Votes: 0

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen. Votes: 0

On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what it signifies, or about the greatness of the reality of which it is a sacrament. Your eyes are looking at bread and cup. This is the evidence before your physical sight. But your faith must be instructed concerning it- this bread being Christ 's Body and the cup containing His Blood. Though perhaps these words may be enough to initiate faith, faith must be further instructed in accordance with the Prophet's words: 'Believe that you may understand' Votes: 0

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. Votes: 0

One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever. Votes: 0

One loving heart sets another on fire. Votes: 0

One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth. Votes: 0

Only He who made man makes man happy. Votes: 0

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them. Votes: 0

Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer. Votes: 0

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen. Votes: 0

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family. Votes: 0

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace. Votes: 0

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. Votes: 0

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering... Now, let us acknowledge the wonder of our physical incarnation- that we are here, in these particular bodies, at this particular time, in these particular circumstances. May we never take for granted the gift of our individuality. Votes: 0

Poetry is devil's wine. Votes: 0

Poetry is the Devil's wine. Votes: 0

Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things. Votes: 0

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust. Votes: 0

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent. Votes: 0

Put no faith in salvation through the political order. Votes: 0

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big. Votes: 0

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God. Votes: 0

Salvation is God's way of making us real people. Votes: 0

Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder. Votes: 0

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth. Votes: 0

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility. Votes: 0

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained. Votes: 0

Sin is Energy in the wrong channel. Votes: 0

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place. Votes: 0

Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture. Votes: 0

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil. Votes: 0

Singing is a lover's thing. Votes: 0

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist. Votes: 0

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. Votes: 0

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you. Votes: 0

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children. Votes: 0

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can. Votes: 0

Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking. Votes: 0

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that? Votes: 0

Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him. Votes: 0

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery. Votes: 0

Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church. Votes: 0

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities. Votes: 0

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow. Votes: 0

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation. Votes: 0

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. Votes: 0

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself. Votes: 0

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment. Votes: 0

That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior himself-of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children of the bridegroom-but plainly she is the mother of us who are his members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the Mother of that very head. Votes: 0

That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire. Votes: 0

That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become. Votes: 0

The argument is at an end. Votes: 0

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy. Votes: 0

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? Votes: 0

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them. Votes: 0

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word Votes: 0

The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth' Votes: 0

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience. Votes: 0

The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic. Votes: 0

The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God. Votes: 0

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. Votes: 0

The Devil invented gambling. Votes: 0

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin. Votes: 0

The diversity of language alienates man from man Votes: 0

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters. Votes: 0

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied. Votes: 0

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away. Votes: 0

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven. Votes: 0

The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14). Votes: 0

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men. Votes: 0

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse- the slave of as many masters as he has vices. Votes: 0

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave. Votes: 0

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth. Votes: 0

The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church Votes: 0

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee. Votes: 0

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity, Votes: 0

The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Votes: 0

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home. Votes: 0

The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it. Votes: 0

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin. Votes: 0

The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts. Votes: 0

The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself. Votes: 0

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity. Votes: 0

The measure of love is to love without measuring. Votes: 0

The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church. Votes: 0

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it. Votes: 0

The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it? Votes: 0

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink Votes: 0

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us. Votes: 0

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed. Votes: 0

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king. Votes: 0

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven. Votes: 0

The one who sings, prays twice. Votes: 0

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. Votes: 0

The playthings of our elders are called business. Votes: 0

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder. Votes: 0

The reward of patience Is patience. Votes: 0

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them. Votes: 0

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world. Votes: 0

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity. Votes: 0

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity. Votes: 0

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. Votes: 0

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same. Votes: 0

The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. Votes: 0

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it. Votes: 0

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls . Votes: 0

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience. Votes: 0

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell. Votes: 0

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Votes: 0

The world's verdict is conclusive. Votes: 0

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time. Votes: 0

There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized Votes: 0

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without. Votes: 0

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God. Votes: 0

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill. Votes: 0

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other. Votes: 0

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn. Votes: 0

There is no greater invitation to love than loving first. Votes: 0

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing. Votes: 0

There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither love nor hope without faith. Votes: 0

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life. Votes: 0

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. Votes: 0

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride. Votes: 0

Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Votes: 0

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give. Votes: 0

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others. Votes: 0

They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost. Votes: 0

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them. Votes: 0

Things are solved by walking around. Votes: 0

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. Votes: 0

This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them. Votes: 0

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God. Votes: 0

This world's a bubble. Votes: 0

Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee. Votes: 0

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men. Votes: 0

Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water." Votes: 0

Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause. Votes: 0

Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet. Votes: 0

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble Votes: 0

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit. Votes: 0

To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel. Votes: 0

To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence. Votes: 0

To seek the highest good is to live well. Votes: 0

To sing is to pray twice. Votes: 0

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible. Votes: 0

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die. Votes: 0

Tolle, lege: take up and read. Votes: 0

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . . Votes: 0

True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy. Votes: 0

Truth is not private property. Votes: 0

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still. Votes: 0

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself. Votes: 0

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God. Votes: 0

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume. Votes: 0

Understanding is the reward of faith. Votes: 0

Understanding is the wages of faith. Votes: 0

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal. Votes: 0

Unjust laws aren't laws at all. Votes: 0

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. Votes: 0

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity. Votes: 0

Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptized?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed." How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it. Votes: 0

We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it. Votes: 0

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone Votes: 0

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge. Votes: 0

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is. Votes: 0

We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist. Votes: 0

We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted. Votes: 0

We judge all things according to the divine truth. Votes: 0

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers. Votes: 0

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation. Votes: 0

We should never use the truth to wound. Votes: 0

We speak, but it is God who teaches. Votes: 0

We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed. Votes: 0

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God . Votes: 0

We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly. Votes: 0

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense. Votes: 0

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits. Votes: 0

What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things. Votes: 0

What can be hoped for which is not believed? Votes: 0

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer! Votes: 0

What do I love when I love my God? Votes: 0

What do you possess if you possess not God? Votes: 0

What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know. Votes: 0

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority. Votes: 0

What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men truly have to say: "In Thy Name we have eaten and drunk," and they will have to hear: "I do not know you!" (Luke 13:26-27). They eat and drink His Body and Blood in the Sacrament and do not recognize in the Gospel His members spread over the whole world, and for this reason they are not numbered among them at the Judgment. Votes: 0

What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34) Votes: 0

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice. Votes: 0

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't. Votes: 0

What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, "What is this?" Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you. Votes: 0

What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond. Votes: 0

What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke. Votes: 0

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor. Votes: 0

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. Votes: 0

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction Votes: 0

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service. Votes: 0

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness. Votes: 0

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete. Votes: 0

When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live. Votes: 0

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame. Votes: 0

When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life. Votes: 0

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful. Votes: 0

When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor. Votes: 0

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar. Votes: 0

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil. Votes: 0

Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself. Votes: 0

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable? Votes: 0

Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Votes: 0

Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself? Votes: 0

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear. Votes: 0

Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will. Votes: 0

Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed? Votes: 0

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ? Votes: 0

Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does. Votes: 0

Whoever possesses God is happy. Votes: 0

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood. Votes: 0

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought. Votes: 0

Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books. Votes: 0

Whole prayer is nothing but love. Votes: 0

Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant? Votes: 0

Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all? Votes: 0

Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee. Votes: 0

Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not. Votes: 0

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not Votes: 0

Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one. Votes: 0

Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God. Votes: 0

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing. Votes: 0

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love. Votes: 0

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness. Votes: 0

You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.' Votes: 0

You are what you love. Votes: 0

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones. Votes: 0

You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace. Votes: 0

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life. Votes: 0

You cannot attain to charity except through humility. Votes: 0

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers. Votes: 0

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions. Votes: 0

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it. Votes: 0

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run. Votes: 0

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.' Votes: 0

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation. Votes: 0

Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things. Votes: 0

Your wisdom should be without pride. Votes: 0