A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
St. Jerome
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
St. Jerome
Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
St. Jerome
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
St. Jerome
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
St. Jerome
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
St. Jerome
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
St. Jerome
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
St. Jerome
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome
Haste is of the Devil.
St. Jerome
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
St. Jerome
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
St. Jerome
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
St. Jerome
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
St. Jerome
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. Jerome
The scars of others should teach us caution.
St. Jerome
They talk like angels but they live like men.
St. Jerome
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
St. Jerome
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
St. Jerome
Why do you not practice what you preach.
St. Jerome
Saturday 20 June 2009
Wednesday 20 May 2009
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold Lokes
Friday 15 May 2009
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Wednesday 13 May 2009
St. Francis of Assisi
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
St. Francis of Assisi
For it is in giving that we receive.
St. Francis of Assisi
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
St. Francis of Assisi
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
St. Francis of Assisi
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
St. Francis of Assisi
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
St. Francis of Assisi
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
St. Francis of Assisi
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
St. Francis of Assisi
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
St. Francis of Assisi
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
St. Francis of Assisi
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
St. Francis of Assisi
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
St. Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
St. Francis of Assisi
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Francis of Assisi
For it is in giving that we receive.
St. Francis of Assisi
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
St. Francis of Assisi
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
St. Francis of Assisi
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
St. Francis of Assisi
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
St. Francis of Assisi
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
St. Francis of Assisi
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
St. Francis of Assisi
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
St. Francis of Assisi
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
St. Francis of Assisi
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
St. Francis of Assisi
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
St. Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
St. Francis of Assisi
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
St. Francis of Assisi
Saint Teresa of Avila
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa of Avila
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
Saint Teresa of Avila
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Saint Teresa of Avila
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Saint Teresa of Avila
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
Saint Teresa of Avila
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Teresa of Avila
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Saint Teresa of Avila
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa of Avila
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
Saint Teresa of Avila
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Saint Teresa of Avila
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Saint Teresa of Avila
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
Saint Teresa of Avila
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Teresa of Avila
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Saturday 2 May 2009
Monday 20 April 2009
Wednesday 15 April 2009
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
Anna Magnani
1918-1973, Egyptian-born Italian Actor
1918-1973, Egyptian-born Italian Actor
Monday 13 April 2009
Saint Teresa
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
Saint Teresa
Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
Saint Teresa
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
Saint Teresa
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Saint Teresa
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa
Saint Teresa
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
Saint Teresa
Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
Saint Teresa
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
Saint Teresa
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Saint Teresa
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa
