To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish


Heraclitus of Ephesus

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IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do no...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild b...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an en...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, alt...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be t...
JOAN OF ARC
In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and persevering.
CATHERINE OF SIENA
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and...
JOAN OF ARC
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the du...
JOAN OF ARC
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
JOAN OF ARC
Act, and God will act.
JOAN OF ARC
If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
JOAN OF ARC
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, bec...
JOAN OF ARC
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. ...
JOAN OF ARC
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
JOAN OF ARC
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENA
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
JOAN OF ARC
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH