It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
~ Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
Love and do what you like.
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.
If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.
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.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
He that is jealous is not in love.
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Custom is second nature.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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.
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.
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.
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.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
God is best known in not knowing him.
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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.
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.
The greatest evil is physical pain.
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.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
