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Its warmth was not heat, and its cool was not cold


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IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream...
THéRèSE OF LISIEUX Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend t...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, eve...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment......
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
ANTIPHANES OF MACEDONIA if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like ...
ZENO OF CITIUM YHVH Is Love; Satan Is Pride
MONK OF YHVH Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
THERESE OF LISIEUX You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slave...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well.
JULIAN OF NORWICH God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
JULIAN OF NORWICH If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not...
ISAAC OF NINEVEH Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA If you understood him, it would not be God.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first scienc...
BION OF SMYRNA The sinews of business (or state).
BION OF SMYRNA Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 He said not Thou shalt not be tempested, th...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 I saw full surely in this and in all, that e...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 If afore us were laid together all the pain...
JULIANA OF NORWICH This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: A...
JULIANA OF NORWICH