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Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.
I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.
If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.
Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.
It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.
Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.
We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do
Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.
I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.
Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.
Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.
If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!
We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.
Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.