The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can
bear.
BIBLE What did Saint Patrick do? He got all the snakes out of Ireland, Well, let's not steal his glory.
MAGGIE PARKER Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent gr...
BIBLE The greater the sinner, the greater the saint
ENGLISH PROVERB I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more ...
WALT WHITMAN As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that i...
BRUCE LEE Saint Macarius said, “It is not necessary to use many words. Only stretch out your arms and say, �...
THICH NHAT HANH Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theo...
W. IAN THOMAS Yes,” said the Lord Digory. “Its inside is bigger than its outside.
C.S. LEWIS But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be ...
LAFCADIO HEARN As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater...
BIBLE Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history ...
HAILE SELASSIE Outside the kingdom of the Lord thee is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history w...
HAILE SELASSIE I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to
support the weak, and to remember t...
BIBLE I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember th...
BIBLE I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
NANCY A. COLLINS Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is...
EUDORA WELTY Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than t...
BARTON GELLMAN I said, 'Oh, Lord!' because that's all the pictures we had left of her, ... That thing, really I ...
JOAN JOHNSON I didn't have to say anything. The referee said it all when he held up those two hands. Enough said.
DJ HALL As our Lord said, "Where your treasure is, there is your heart also." Hence the least love of God is...
FULTON J. SHEEN There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to ...
WALTER REUTHER The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all actual existenc...
A. W. TOZER It is from Shiith Ibn Adam that all humankind today is said to descend. It is also said that Balkh, ...
TERRY GLAVIN All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the P...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The Board strongly believes that, based on this offer, Patrick shareholders are better off without T...
CHRIS CORRIGAN Shamrocks
And roses
In an ever green flock
Now Up to your noses
Turning into...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.”
“Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the d...
MERRIE HASKELL I asked Patrick if he felt sad that he had to keep it a secret, and Patrick just said that he wasn't...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I said, oh Lord, what is the world coming to.
BLANCHE JONES It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
FELIX FRANKFURTER It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals
FELIX FRANKFURTER If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN He has a mouth, lord," Gerbruht said.
"I envy him," I said.
"Envy him, lord?"
"Most o...
BERNARD CORNWELL I would have thought an offence against an official would be a greater than something said in the he...
JEFF HUNT Immigrants are rising. They have said enough is enough.
DOUG RIVLIN A lot of us have said enough is enough.
MAT STAVER People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
THOMAS MERTON The love I have for you is greater than the pain that you've caused me...
C LIONG Naught is said to you but what was said indeed to the apostles before you; surely your Lord is the L...
QURAN I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and t...
ADRIAN ROGERS All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have...
BIBLE Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
BILLIE HOLIDAY And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus
whom thou persecutest: it is hard ...
BIBLE When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player wit...
PETE ROSE It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals...
FELIX FRANKFURTER There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no gre...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no gr...
ALPHONSUS LIGUORI And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there...
BIBLE Being a simple human being is enough to paint beautifully the real world picture like a saint.
ANUJ SOMANY Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.
THOMAS COGAN (1) And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the...
BIBLE I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
WALT WHITMAN Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS.
JOHN PAUL WARREN I have none other than You, O Lord. In the Guru's Sanctuary, the Lord is found, O my merchant friend...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to...
KINGMAN BREWSTER There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to...
KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR. When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player...
PETE ROSE After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
UNKNOWN And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteou...
BIBLE One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of s...
LAURENCE D. FINK Suffering has been greater than all other teachings. I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a ...
CHARLES DICKINSON You know what, it ain't up to Patrick. It's up to the people around Patrick. I'm tired of people tal...
RANDY THOMAS Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
BILLIE HOLIDAY My mother makes up for all shortcomings because she birthed Ginnie. I might not have loads of friend...
LINDSEY LEAVITT Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
ROBERT NEVILLE Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE The inside world is greater than the outside world,that's why belief is greater than strength.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And...
LAO-TZU A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit ...
RUSSELL M. NELSON We thought last year with Dr. Patrick Moore we were on the right track. (Conference attendees) recei...
DALE LATHIM Judge is a different type of pitcher than Patrick. He goes right after batters.
CRAIG BEESLEY All Patrick employees who went to Pacific National when the joint venture was formed in 2002 were re...
CHRIS CORRIGAN I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.
HABEEB AKANDE Test yourself to greater potential so at least all that can be said is you gave it your all
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have the g...
BETTY FURNESS All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said....
ROALD DAHL No three words have greater power than I Love You.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Wisdom is greater than knowledge,but imagination is greater than both wisdom & knowledge.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Not craftsmen, my lord" he said. "I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possib...
TERRY PRATCHETT There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.<...
LAO-TZU Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; int...
CRISS JAMI But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree:...
BIBLE And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not: Am I my brother'...
BIBLE Patrick stepped in there and did a heck of a job. And I don't know if you can say enough about Santa...
JOE GIBBS And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have no...
BIBLE Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense gr...
JAKOB BOHME You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
C.S. LEWIS If you are better than all others, then you are greater than all those.
VIKRANT PARSAI The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
YOKO ONO I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My punishment is greater than I can bear
BIBLE Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to ...
CECILY HALLECK Brandon and Parker have made unbelievable strides since last year. Patrick is having a solid season ...
LANCE ABERNATHY Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized ...
JAMES F. COOPER
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SAINT PATRICK I am just so grateful. I am grateful to be here. I am grateful to be alive. I am grateful to the jur...
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SAINT PATRICK Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which...
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SAINT IGNATIUS I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
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SAINT IGNATIUS In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra...
SAINT IGNATIUS Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe...
SAINT IGNATIUS Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n...
SAINT IGNATIUS Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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SAINT IGNATIUS May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
SAINT IGNATIUS True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
SAINT IGNATIUS May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
SAINT IGNATIUS For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je...
SAINT IGNATIUS If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ...
SAINT IGNATIUS Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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SAINT BERNARD Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
SAINT BERNARD Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav...
SAINT BERNARD I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C...
SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
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SAINT BERNARD That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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SAINT BERNARD You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason...
SAINT BERNARD I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor...
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SAINT BERNARD Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong...
SAINT BERNARD In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al...
SAINT BERNARD God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig...
SAINT BERNARD We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
SAINT BERNARD Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinar...
SAINT BASIL The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enqu...
SAINT BASIL There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
SAINT BASIL We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not s...
SAINT BASIL We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individua...
SAINT BASIL Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control ov...
SAINT BASIL Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a ...
SAINT BASIL To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
SAINT BASIL Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you ...
SAINT BASIL By nature, men desire the beautiful.
SAINT BASIL Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
SAINT BASIL Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
SAINT BASIL God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our h...
SAINT BASIL What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who do...
SAINT BASIL Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itsel...
SAINT BASIL Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does n...
SAINT BASIL Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
SAINT BASIL In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes ex...
SAINT BASIL When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whate...
SAINT AMBROSE It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard agains...
SAINT AMBROSE The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
SAINT AMBROSE Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my li...
SAINT AMBROSE Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that th...
SAINT AMBROSE Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
SAINT AMBROSE In some causes silence is dangerous.
SAINT AMBROSE God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especi...
SAINT AMBROSE Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body...
SAINT AMBROSE It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
SAINT AMBROSE One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wron...
SAINT AMBROSE God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide ...
SAINT AMBROSE God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and th...
SAINT AMBROSE There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
SAINT AMBROSE No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
SAINT AMBROSE A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
SAINT AMBROSE Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
SAINT AMBROSE When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
SAINT AMBROSE It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
SAINT IGNATIUS Custom is second nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The verdict of the world is conclusive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He who labours, prays.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I alr...
SAINT AUGUSTINE I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it...
SAINT AUGUSTINE No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
SAINT AUGUSTINE There is no possible source of evil except good.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not po...
SAINT AUGUSTINE A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Hear the other side.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h...
SAINT AUGUSTINE To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to...
SAINT AUGUSTINE God is best known in not knowing him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE To seek the highest good is to live well.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in e...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other...
SAINT AUGUSTINE He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scatt...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The purpose of all wars, is peace.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Love, and do what you like.
SAINT AUGUSTINE God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE This world's a bubble.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and...
SAINT IGNATIUS Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to t...
SAINT BERNARD Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meani...
SAINT IGNATIUS If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospe...
SAINT AUGUSTINE All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are fall...
SAINT BASIL Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
[Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.]
SAINT JEROME The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
SAINT JEROME Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive a...
SAINT BASIL The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
SAINT AUGUSTINE I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so
SAINT AUGUSTINE Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbou...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Unless you believe, you will not understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The argument is at an end.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep...
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SAINT AUGUSTINE The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the ...
SAINT BERNARD You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-p...
SAINT STEPHEN Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast red...
SAINT AMBROSE We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
SAINT STEPHEN In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out cl...
SAINT IGNATIUS Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders,...
SAINT AMBROSE Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Patience is the companion of wisdom.
SAINT AUGUSTINE What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights...
SAINT BASIL The greatest evil is physical pain.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
SAINT AUGUSTINE