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TERESA OF AVILA We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our e...
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LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to eve...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing va...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI I am the herald of the Great King.
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FRANCIS OF ASSISI If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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HUSSEIN OF JORDAN We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God...
TERESA OF AVILA Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ru...
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AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at onc...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than ...
THALES OF MILETUS If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.
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FRANCIS OF ASSISI Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
ZENO OF CITIUM I don't exist when you don't see me.
SISTERS OF MERCY Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's wom...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.
TERESA OF AVILA Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical...
RODAN OF ALEXANDRIA We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and...
TERESA OF AVILA You can't step twice into the same river.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the pr...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He shoul...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a ...
MECHTHILD OF MAGHEBURG Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where th...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
TERESA OF AVILA You can lease the peace of mind You bought a mask, I put it on. You never thought to ask me If I wea...
SISTERS OF MERCY Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
TERESA OF AVILA Hope is the poor man's bread.
THALES OF MILETUS It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
WILLIAM OF OCCAM Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. An...
JULIAN OF NORWICH What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
ROBERT OF DONCASTE True repentance is to cease from sinning.
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BAND OF BROTHERS If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerab...
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EARL OF ARRAN I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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TERESA OF AVILA Shun security.
THALES OF MILETOS Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him th...
CATHERINE OF SIENA I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
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...
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AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
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MAXIMS OF PTAHHOTEP Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
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JOAN OF ARC A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI For it is in giving that we receive.
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