Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer
1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Saturday, 28 February 2009
There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
Thursday, 26 February 2009
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer
1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer
1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Edith Stein
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
Edith Stein
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
Edith Stein
If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
Edith Stein
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
Edith Stein
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
Edith Stein
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Edith Stein
One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
Edith Stein
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
Edith Stein
The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
Edith Stein
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
Edith Stein
Edith Stein
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
Edith Stein
If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
Edith Stein
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
Edith Stein
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
Edith Stein
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Edith Stein
One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
Edith Stein
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
Edith Stein
The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
Edith Stein
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
Edith Stein
Friday, 20 February 2009
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
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.
St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.
Curtis Judalet
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Saint Augustine
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Saint Augustine
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Saint Augustine
He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Saint Augustine
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Saint Augustine
Hear the other side.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Saint Augustine
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.''
Saint Augustine
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Saint Augustine
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
The greatest evil is physical pain.
Saint Augustine
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Saint Augustine
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Saint Augustine
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
There is no possible source of evil except good.
Saint Augustine
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
Saint Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Saint Augustine
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Saint Augustine
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Saint Augustine
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
To seek the highest good is to live well.
Saint Augustine
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Saint Augustine
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Saint Augustine
He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Saint Augustine
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Saint Augustine
Hear the other side.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Saint Augustine
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.''
Saint Augustine
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Saint Augustine
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
The greatest evil is physical pain.
Saint Augustine
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Saint Augustine
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Saint Augustine
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
There is no possible source of evil except good.
Saint Augustine
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
Saint Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Saint Augustine
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Saint Augustine
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Saint Augustine
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
To seek the highest good is to live well.
Saint Augustine
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Saint Augustine
