Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman
354 - 430. Christian theologian and Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church, bishop of Hippo in North Africa.
1. "To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."
Categories: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
2. "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
Categories: Various
3. "Punishment is justice for the unjust."
Categories: Justice -:- Law and Crime
4. "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
Categories: God and Religion -:- Work and Laziness
5. "People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."
Categories: Human
6. "Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
7. "Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
Categories: Nature and Animals
8. "Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good."
Categories: Love
9. "Love the sinner and hate the sin."
Categories: Love -:- Sin and Conscience
10. "Love is the beauty of the soul."
Categories: Love
11. "It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."
Categories: Various
12. "In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
Categories: Authority, Government -:- Justice
13. "If you were the only person on earth, Christ would have still suffered and died for you."
Categories: God and Religion
14. "If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times."
Categories: Good and Evil
15. "If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."
Categories: Friendship and Hostility
16. "Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are."
Categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Optimism and Hope -:- Anger
17. "He who sings prays twice."
Categories: God and Religion
18. "God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails."
Categories: Work and Laziness
19. "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
Categories: God and Religion
20. "God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."
Categories: Pain and Tears
21. "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."
Categories: Forgiveness
22. "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
Categories: God and Religion
23. "Anger is a weed; hate is the tree."
source: "Sermons"
Categories: Anger
24. "An unjust law is no law at all."
Categories: Justice -:- Law and Crime
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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