The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.


Athanasius of Alexandria

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS...
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH
God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER
All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE
No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS
A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER
“Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH
You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER
Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY
When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS...
It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER
A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY
I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS...
Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY
The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH
She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES
To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON
‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL
I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE
I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN
There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO
Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE
That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON
When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN
Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu...
KATHLEEN TESSARO
When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af...
MICHAEL STEIN
When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got?
CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS
In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero...
GRAEME SIMSION
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN
Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
FRANCINE RIVERS
Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI
All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON
The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people...
KARON WADDELL
Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
ARIEL SERAPHINO
To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON
We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS...
Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.
KATHERINE PATERSON
If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
ALAN COHEN
You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp...
BOB MOAWAD
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER
What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
JOHN GREEN
What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. MILNE
And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur...
JAMES JONES
Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
MAYA ANGELOU
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo...
BETTY SMITH
Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN
I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw...
J.D. SALINGER
Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ...
IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
LAUREN KATE
Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER
Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...
JERRY SPINELLI
How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?
PAULA STOKES
There's no sustenance in the past.
VIOLETTE LEDUC
Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r...
THICH NHAT HANH
To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS
Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?”
“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
JOHN GREEN
Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN
We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ...
JOHN GREEN
So it’s your death suit.”
“Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?”
“Yeah,”...
JOHN GREEN
I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest.
“Hazel Grace. No. I will gran...
JOHN GREEN
«Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma...
JOHN GREEN
Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist.
“Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�...
JOHN GREEN
If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
“So you...
JOHN GREEN
People always get used to beauty, though.”
“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ...
JOHN GREEN
Augustus: “You probably need some rest.”
Me: “I’m okay.”
Augustus: “Okay.” (...
JOHN GREEN
Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
JOHN GREEN
como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu...
J.K. ROWLING
No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima
JOHN GREEN
But it's your life.
JOHN GREEN
No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round.
JOHN GREEN
Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ...
JOHN GREEN
No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace.
JOHN GREEN
you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and...
JOHN GREEN
That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt.
JOHN GREEN
Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ...
JOHN GREEN
Writing does not resurrect. It buries..
JOHN GREEN

More Athanasius of Alexandria

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
He became what we are so that he might make us what he is.
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
The body of the Word, then, being a real human body, in spite of its having been uniquely formed fro...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
You know how it is when some great king enters a large city and dwells in one of its houses; because...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
Even the very creation broke silence at His behest and, marvelous to relate, confessed with one voic...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
we see the fitness of His death and of those outstretched arms: it was that He might draw His ancien...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
The Greek philosophers have compiled many works with persuasiveness and much skill in words; but wha...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
The answer is this. The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering ...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
For the Word, realizing that in no other way would the corruption of human beings be undone except, ...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
Heracles is worshipped as a god by the Greeks because he fought with humans equal to himself and kil...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
through death deathlessness has been made known to us,
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound ha...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
This distinctness of things argues not a spontaneous generation but a prevenient Cause; and from tha...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
For of what use is existence to the creature if it cannot know its Maker? How could men be reasonabl...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost t...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
repentance recall men from what is according to their nature; all that it does is to make them cease...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound ha...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
The Savior is working mightily among men, every day He is invisibly persuading numbers of people all...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
You know how it is when some great king enters a large city and dwells in one of its houses; because...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
For, indeed, everything about is marvelous, and wherever a man turns his gaze he sees the Godhead of...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was te...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have r...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wan...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
Christ was made man that we might be made God.
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
Dead men cannot take effective action; their power of influence on others lasts only till the grave....
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical...
RODAN OF ALEXANDRIA
The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons a...
HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA
For what is hairy is by nature drier and warmer than what is bare; therefore, the male is hairier an...
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
RODAN OF ALEXANDRIA
Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frug...
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
And barbarians were inventors not only of philosophy, but almost of every art. The Egyptians were th...
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
And Pythagoras is reported to have been a disciple of Sonches the Egyptian arch-prophet; and Plato, ...
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own...
ATHANASIUS
Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any r...
ATHANASIUS
These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they co...
ATHANASIUS
Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ATHANASIUS
Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them b...
ATHANASIUS
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying t...
ATHANASIUS
The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
ATHANASIUS
Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A man's personality actuates and qui...
ST. ATHANASIUS
Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Human and human-minded as men were, t...
ST. ATHANASIUS
Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Both from the confession of the evil...
ST. ATHANASIUS
Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ST. ATHANASIUS
Feast of Philip & James, Apostles What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind -...
ST. ATHANASIUS
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
ALEXANDRIA PENNEY
Love is impatient; love is cruel. It gets your hopes up then tears them down expecting you to be ok;...
ALEXANDRIA RHODES
He walked over to the piano and lifted the cover revealing black and white keys that my fingers knew...
ALEXANDRIA RHODES
Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which c...
ALEXANDRIA DAVID-NEEL
In the books I find the thrum of everything unsayable. The characters weep the way I want to, love t...
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH
I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH
My sisters and I stand on the deck, the shale tile cool against the soles of our feet - for a week i...
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH
A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
LETTERS OF ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA
Teachers greatly influence how students perceive and approach struggle in the mathematics classroom....
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to ou...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and i...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myse...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do no...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild b...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an en...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, alt...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be t...
JOAN OF ARC
In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and persevering.
CATHERINE OF SIENA
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and...
JOAN OF ARC
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the du...
JOAN OF ARC
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
JOAN OF ARC
Act, and God will act.
JOAN OF ARC
If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
JOAN OF ARC
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, bec...
JOAN OF ARC
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. ...
JOAN OF ARC
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
JOAN OF ARC
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENA
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
JOAN OF ARC
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of...
TERESA OF AVILA
We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our e...
TERESA OF AVILA
Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind...
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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them brigh...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no ene...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak...
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...
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE
He (Scipio of Rome) did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals a...
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.
SWAMWRA OF BASRA
Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings ...
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
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
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
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.
AMBROSE OF MILAN
True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain ef...
TERESA OF AVILA
We
BAND OF BROTHERS
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerab...
CRITIAS OF ATHENS
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman un...
EARL OF ARRAN
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
ARCHIBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse wil...
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
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...
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