Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
Saint Patrick
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SAINT BERNARD A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ... SAINT BERNARD Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in... SAINT BERNARD Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ... SAINT BERNARD That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness. SAINT BERNARD There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin... 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... SAINT BERNARD Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a... 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... 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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... SAINT IGNATIUS Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, ... 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