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Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.


Hafiz of Persia

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BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you ga...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 For I seek not to under...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first tw...
GREGORY OF NYSSA Business tomorrow.
ARCHIAS OF THEBES For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when y...
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