Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
Periander of Corinth
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Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of
the world.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
[Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est glo...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Relaxation should at times be given to the mind, the better to
fit it for toil when resumed.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Live according to your income.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen
inches.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Check disease in its approach.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH The success of the wicked tempts many to sin.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to
hear it said, "That is he."
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything,
doing nothing.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH However exalted our position, we should still not despise the
powers of the humble.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks...
PERIANDER OF CORINTH The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH You are too sarcastic.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH May everything he treads upon become a rose!
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Nothing is impossible to industry.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Success brings many to ruin.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH The pot boils badly.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH I have cut my leg with my own adze.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Each man has his fancy.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time:
when out of place they are offensive...
PERIANDER OF CORINTH To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the
attempt.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin.
[The fable of frog and the cow.]
PERIANDER OF CORINTH That's something I've found in any business that never works. You can't save your way to a profit.
LARRY CRAIN No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH Your client’s life should profit because of your business. The ultimate profit is for your client�...
JOHN DI LEMME It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.
MICHAEL HIRST "Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory
Array'd," the lilies cry, "in robes like ours;
How ...
HORACE (HORATIO) SMITH Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
DAN MCKINNON We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.
MOLIERE YOU WILL NEVER KEEP ANYONE IN YOUR LIFE UNLESS YOUR HEART CAN CONTAIN THEM.
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. YOU WILL NEVER KEEP SOMEONE IN YOUR LIFE UNLESS YOUR HEART CAN CONTAIN THEM.
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else i...
DEE HOCK Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridicu...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Don't follow your dreams, lead them
JAVIER RODRIGUEZ Oh Sinner! Vain is your attempt to hide your sins, for sins will shine in your life as bald pate shi...
DR HITESH C SHETH Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridic...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Justification is withdrawn from works, not that no good works may be done, or that what is done may ...
JOHN CALVIN Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord builds the city,...
ANONYMOUS You must learn to see everything around yourself as your resources, your opportunities and turn them...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Not to be vain, but I have nice long legs, so I like to accentuate them. Find what part of your body...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN The glory of winning always lies in your beginning.
SRAVANI SAHA NAKHRO Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Univer...
MIKE DOOLEY Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
WILLIAM DUNBAR When you are a follower of Jesus Christ, everything in your life is working toward your good and His...
BILLY C LEE One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, withou...
B. CARROLL REECE You leaders, where do you lead your people to? Do you sow in them the seed of possession?
SUNDAY ADELAJA Criticism will always doubt you and your abilities. Always use them as motivators; your price of suc...
LILY CHATTERJEE The Blessing #2:
May love lead your eyes to look out for others,
may love lead your ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.
AFROJACK Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject t...
MARTIN LUTHER The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the ess...
VINCE LOMBARDI JR. The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the es...
VINCE LOMBARDI Motivation is like fire—unless you keep adding fuel to it, it dies. Your fuel is your belief in yo...
SHIV KHERA Whatever God permits to happen in your life is a gift to you. God has two goals...His Glory and Your...
KINGSLEY OPUWARI MANUEL Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!
DEBORAH WILES Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon...
BIBLE Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of ...
KEVIN MICHEL Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain
To write in water's not to write in vain.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
THOMAS GRAY Glory is chiefly distributed by the emulation and the despair of men of the same craft struggling in...
JOAQUIM NABUCO Your ability to lead others improves when you strengthen your ability to lead yourself.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
DAVID TUVILL In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
VIRGIL Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.
BILLY BOY FRANKLIN Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that...
SIMON MAINWARING Unless you have the courage to analyze your mistakes you are bound to repeat them.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING Love is the strongest emotion and always will be, so let Love lead your life and let your life lead ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE With mindful awareness, YOU are not your thoughts unless YOU choose them.
REUBEN LOWE No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup...
RUSSELL SMITH This is a stunning surprise, rather like finding out that the key to your house also works in the ig...
FRANCIS COLLINS This is a stunning surprise, rather like finding out that the key to your house also works in the ig...
FRANCIS COLLINS Dreams don't work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live th...
ROY T. BENNETT Never be frightened to take a profit. Better in your pocket then theirs.
MICHAEL LEVY You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you wil...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
DEMOSTHENES Unless you have completely destroyed your enemy, your survival is precarious
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
INDONESIA123 Do not stand in front of change; unless to lead it.
RYAN KENT It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Perhaps I m...
CHARLES DICKENS Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
JACK LALANNE The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That'...
VINCE LOMBARDI Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
AUBERON WAUGH Let your running lead you to your diet.
BILL RODGERS Your vehicle of leadership is fueled by your willingness to learn. You can't lead if you can't learn...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Your ability to inspire determines your capability to lead.
LALIT BHOJWANI Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and ...
ADAM CLAYTON Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and ...
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR. Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pre...
SETH GODIN
More Periander of Corinth
Relaxation should at times be given to the mind, the better to
fit it for toil when resumed.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Live according to your income.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen
inches.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Check disease in its approach.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH The success of the wicked tempts many to sin.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to
hear it said, "That is he."
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything,
doing nothing.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH However exalted our position, we should still not despise the
powers of the humble.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks...
PERIANDER OF CORINTH The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH You are too sarcastic.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH May everything he treads upon become a rose!
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Nothing is impossible to industry.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Success brings many to ruin.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH The pot boils badly.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH I have cut my leg with my own adze.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Each man has his fancy.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time:
when out of place they are offensive...
PERIANDER OF CORINTH To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the
attempt.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin.
[The fable of frog and the cow.]
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Practice is everything
This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
PERIANDER Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity
PERIANDER Freedom is a clear conscience.
PERIANDER Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.
PERIANDER Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
PERIANDER Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
PERIANDER A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
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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 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.
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.
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BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Beginning a short series on prayer: Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If th...
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BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song ...
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