He became what we are so that he might make us what he is.
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XENOCRATES OF CHALCEDON
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
MENANDER OF ATHENS
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of f...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Most men are bad.
BIAS OF PRIENE Character is fate. (Destiny)
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnera...
CRITIAS OF ATHENS Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATES OF IPHICRATES
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest n...
MECHTHILD OF MAGDENBURG Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHAGORAS Manners maketh man.
WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You as...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wick...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
ZENO OF CITIUM Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and spee...
MAXIMS OF PTAHHOTEP Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
HERMOCRATES OF SYRACUSE From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintan...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, sho...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestin...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN OF ARC
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
For it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... sett...
JOAN OF ARC I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emer...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the imp...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a h...
JOAN OF ARC There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
MARY OF TECK Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangel...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Ca...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they b...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Foun...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Beginning a short series on prayer: Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, ...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX