| Quotes |
Topic |
| Admiration | Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. |
| Brevity | I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. |
| Christianity | Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart. |
| Christianity | Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. |
| Christianity | If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides Himself, what a brilliance of light we must expect when He reveals Himself! |
| Christianity | Palm Sunday Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair. |
| Christianity | Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence. |
| Christianity | The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. |
| Christianity | If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God? |
| Christianity | Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves. |
| Christianity | Jesus Christ is end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the reason of everything. |
| Christianity | It is impossible that God should ever be the end, if He is not the beginning. We lift our eyes on high, but lean upon the sand; and the earth will dissolve, and we shall fall while looking at the heavens. |
| Christianity | Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ. |
| Curiosity | Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. |
| Deceit | We like to be deceived. |
| Earth | The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth. |
| Eloquence | Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. |
| Enthusiasm | Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. |
| Faith | In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. |
| Fame | The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. |
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