| Author |
Quotes |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | He that begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. |
| Simone Weil | A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. |
| Sir Edwyn Hoskyns | The overwhelming recognition of human sin controls the Old Testament and the New Testament alike, and no understanding of our Lord's words and actions is possible if we persist in denying it. |
| Sophocles | Wisdom outweighs any wealth. |
| St Ambrose | Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Father; He is our right hand through which we offer ourselves to the Father. Unless He intercedes, there is no intercourse with God. |
| St Augustine | God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us. |
| St Augustine | Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee. |
| St Augustine | Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment. |
| St Augustine | God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. |
| St Augustine | If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and of men. |
| St Jerome | Continuing a short series on the Bible: A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church. |
| St John Chrysostom | Ascension A comprehended god is no god. |
| St Teresa | Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Continuing a short series on prayer: The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him. |
| Tertullian | For us, murder is once for all forbidden... It makes no difference whether one take away the life once born, or destroy it as it comes to birth. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed. |
| Theologia Germanica | Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me , therefore in each of us, nature hath a deep horror of it. |
| Theologia Germanica | Nothing burneth in hell but self-will. Therefore it hath been said, Put off thine own will, and there will be no more hell. |
| Thomas Aquinas | To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. |
| Thomas Aquinas | Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 The end of all my labors has come. All that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have been revealed to me. |
| Thomas Fuller | Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 God's own work must be done by God's own ways. Otherwise, we can take no comfort in obtaining the end, if we cannot justify the means used thereunto. |
| Thomas Fuller | Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from any guiltiness; but when I have committed it, it often seems so deep that I cannot escape without drowning. |
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