Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.
Source Unknown
When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated to annoy; say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy.
Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.
Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.
Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.
Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.
Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.
Seven days without prayer makes one weak.
A minister asked a little boy how to get to the Post Office. After the little boy told him, the minister said, Why don't you come to church tonight? I'm giving instructions on how to get to heaven. After thinking a minute, the boy replied, I don't think so. You don't even know how to get to the Post Office.
Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.
Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.
I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination? If hypocrisy was destructive to the environment the world would have ended a long, long time ago.
Want is the mother of industry.
Proverb
Too much zeal spoils everything.
Zeal is like fire: it needs both feeding and watching.
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
Try and trust will move mountains.
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.
It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.
Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.
Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.
Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.
A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.
We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.
Custom is a tyrant.
Danger past, God forgotten.
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Simone Weil
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits -- and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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