No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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And not as Moses, which put... BIBLE I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His ... T. B. JOSHUA Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from th... MAYA ANGELOU Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government... FRéDéRIC BASTIAT Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which... ERIC BURDON It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the momen... ROLAND ALLEN It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and t... WILLIAM GOLDING The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems... EDMUND BURKE Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I am sure that I am in possession of a soul that is at the very least, a thousand years old. And I s... C. JOYBELL C. What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transf... LEO TOLSTOY And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we... PHILIP PULLMAN Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear... AVIJEET DAS I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the... BLAISE PASCAL We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflic... WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissist... ERICH FROMM It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ... C. JOYBELL C. Evildoers delight in hiding themselves; shun appearing; are bewildered when discovered; being accuse... TERTULLIAN To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them t... BERTRAND RUSSELL For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the ... MILAN KUNDERA And in the livid night there creeps a basilisk, spawned by the moon after its strange fashion. The m... HANNS HEINZ EWERS The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love th... JOSEPH RATZINGER The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love th... POPE BENEDICT XVI We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the o... G.K. CHESTERTON Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secr... BETTY SMITH The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the e... PREM PRAKASH This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differenti... GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on a... ALBERT EINSTEIN This great nation fights now to save ourselves and our children from living in a world of fear. We f... A. BUSH There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticis... RICHARD LIVINGSTONE If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve ... ROBERTSON DAVIES
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SAINT BERNARD Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a... SAINT BERNARD Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong... SAINT BERNARD In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?... SAINT BERNARD Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al... SAINT BERNARD God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig... SAINT BERNARD We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ... SAINT BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. SAINT BERNARD When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whate... SAINT AMBROSE It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard agains... SAINT AMBROSE The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril. SAINT AMBROSE Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my li... SAINT AMBROSE Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that th... SAINT AMBROSE Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. SAINT AMBROSE In some causes silence is dangerous. SAINT AMBROSE God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especi... SAINT AMBROSE Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body... SAINT AMBROSE It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well. SAINT AMBROSE One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wron... SAINT AMBROSE God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide ... SAINT AMBROSE God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and th... SAINT AMBROSE There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. SAINT AMBROSE No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good. SAINT AMBROSE A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand. SAINT AMBROSE Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also. SAINT AMBROSE When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. SAINT AMBROSE It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey. SAINT IGNATIUS Custom is second nature. SAINT AUGUSTINE