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We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord’s majesty?

Your wisdom should be without pride.

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

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.

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

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One can’t reach the Truth but trough Love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman’s hell.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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