FastSaying

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?


Saint Basil

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Who's the bigger person in the end? The man who allows his dog to do what he does or the dog, who gi...
BRUCE DERN One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are suffering. [Lat., Ingratus unus miseris omnibus n...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Personally, I don't put a ton of stock in seedlings. My feeling is that Saint Basil is the best team...
KATHY MCCARTNEY How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL The man who talks to his wife about his dog instead of singing a love song is a wise man.
VIKRANT PARSAI Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Gentlemen of the Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world...
GEORGE GRAHAM VEST A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
LEON BLUM You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man
AUSONIUS The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look,...
NIKOLAI GOGOL I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.
STEVEN MOFFAT A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER There is no virtue in the relationship between man and dog that does not originate in the dog.
ROBERT BRAULT In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. But that is not all, tha...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, an...
MARKESA YEAGER The barking of a dog does not disturb the man on a camel
EGYPTIAN PROVERB The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
MENCIUS A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liber...
FRANCES THOMPSON Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Beware of a man that does not talk and a dog that does not bark
PORTUGUESE PROVERB Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no m...
AYN RAND Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A saint is not a person who does not sin; but a sinner who never stops doing good
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself ac...
RUTH BENEDICT Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which He does not often do, His motivatio...
JAMES C. DOBSON It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does ...
MICHAEL C. CAHILL Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion...
MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
MENCIUS One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.
UNKNOWN To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencie...
VICTOR HUGO May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of...
AULIQ ICE Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ...
SIDNEY MADWED Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ...
SYDNEY MADWED The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Plutocracy’s insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to...
DEAN CAVANAGH Ladies, never underestimate the value of thanking any man for being a "true gentleman," when he open...
REBEKAH CYPHERS A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
MENCIUS (MENGZI MENG-TSE) One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century'...
ELLIS PETERS PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA The public have neither shame or gratitude.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I'm called the saint maker. People say any woman who would marry you would have to be a saint.
JIM GENOVESE I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die
he does not die a death of sham...
OSCAR WILDE The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
ALEXANDER SMITH The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequentl...
JAMES THURBER You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will neve...
CHARLES SPURGEON A man who does not respect his own mother is absolutely no good.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
DEMOSTHENES The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. ...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over...
DONALD MCCAIG I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.
GEORGE HERBERT A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand ...
FULTON J. SHEEN The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas w...
NIKOLA TESLA Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL His message of peace and love was universal. He is the man to whom the world owes a great debt of gr...
HERMAN BOONE When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said 'His name is not Wi...
RUPERT BROOKE The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give u...
CONFUCIUS Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart...
ANA MONNAR Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.
ANA MONNAR A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas; a dog hunting does not notice them
PROVERB Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his worl...
DAVID BOWIE He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
SOCRATES Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any...
SUZY KASSEM The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO

More Saint Basil

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 All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are fall...
SAINT BASIL Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive a...
SAINT BASIL Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights...
SAINT BASIL Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all hu...
SAINT BASIL A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy re...
SAINT BASIL First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions...
SAINT BASIL As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As...
SAINT BASIL All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous n...
SAINT BASIL Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good ...
SAINT BASIL Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of ne...
SAINT BASIL Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort an...
SAINT BASIL It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the c...
SAINT BASIL Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune. . .
SAINT BASIL of thought.
SAINT BASIL He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in t...
SAINT BASIL No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a li...
SAINT BASIL Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the he...
BASIL RATHBONE Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
BASIL RATHBONE I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that come...
BASIL RATHBONE Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course r...
BASIL RATHBONE As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
BASIL RATHBONE Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering...
BASIL HUME The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his...
BASIL HUME To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
BASIL BUNTING Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of scul...
BASIL BUNTING Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
BASIL BUNTING Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I w...
BASIL HUME The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmi...
BASIL O'CONNOR Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.
BASIL KING A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy re...
ST. BASIL Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
BASIL BUNTING He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
ST. BASIL The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is inf...
BASIL BUNTING But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
BASIL BUNTING A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers l...
ST. BASIL Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of nec...
ST. BASIL I hate science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that s...
BASIL BUNTING Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
ST. BASIL Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days ...
BASIL HUME If Exxon knew at the time [of a 1997 City Council hearing on the matter] about this study, then the ...
BASIL SEGGOS We detected alarmingly high levels of [methane gas and benzene vapors] in July. In the right concent...
BASIL SEGGOS The company has chosen this basic technology. It is inefficient and it does nothing to prevent the v...
BASIL SEGGOS We know there are technologies out there that are a hell of a lot more aggressive.
BASIL SEGGOS Things seem very quiet and all too optimistic. I turned down a film hoping against hope to play Orla...
BASIL RATHBONE Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the he...
BASIL RATHBONE The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pyg...
BASIL O'CONNOR Their improvement definitely makes me think we can have a shot for the regional title. If improvemen...
BASIL MIKE They played a wonderful match.
BASIL MIKE She had a great tournament and played great.
BASIL MIKE They really had a great tournament, they especially showing promise upsetting Cherry Creek.
BASIL MIKE She really competed hard, even after hurting her ankle. She just fought hard.
BASIL MIKE It's a learning process for her; we just need to improve as a team in all aspects of the game.
BASIL MIKE It may not have looked like it was close, but all of the matches were really close. We were tough al...
BASIL MIKE It was obviously our first meet. We didn't play very good tennis and it showed. We really need to pr...
BASIL MIKE Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.
BASIL KING We looked forward to this day on our schedule the entire time. This movie will go on forever.
BASIL IWANYK Once I left Huntington, I realized this film has to be done, and it has to be done right away.
BASIL IWANYK I always knew about Marshall University; I always knew about the crash. What I didn't know is what h...
BASIL IWANYK He really wants to shoot as much of the movie here as possible. Having the fans prove that they are ...
BASIL IWANYK Expect a lot of trucks, cable, roads closed and people walking around on cell phones. But I think th...
BASIL IWANYK I knew we had something when I let people read the script. We had people who were sports fans and no...
BASIL IWANYK It is a challenge to do a movie like this right. It will be completely legitimate, as close to the t...
BASIL IWANYK There is no real exploitable ground water down to the Riverton area. The aquifer there is less 'clay...
BASIL FERNANDEZ We will make our own release but will not comment on the issue now.
BASIL FERNANDEZ That assumption is based on if there are no further rains; if there are further rains, the situation...
BASIL FERNANDEZ We expect that it (water) will continue to rise for some weeks more before it actually peaks and the...
BASIL FERNANDEZ The Flood Water Control Act provides for that.
BASIL FERNANDEZ I never watch the re-runs.
BASIL FAWLTY I was up at five, you know, we do have staff problems, I'm so sorry,it's all done by magic.
BASIL FAWLTY Zffff...what was that, sir? That was your life. Can I get another one? No, sorry.
BASIL FAWLTY A satisfied customer-we should have him stuffed!
BASIL FAWLTY I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that s...
BASIL BUNTING Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.
BASIL BUNTING For some strange reason, beans always fall off knives.
BASIL WOLVERTON Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, ...
BASIL HUME Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troub...
BASIL KING Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
BASIL KING Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a m...
ST. BASIL No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
ST. BASIL Be bold—and mighty forces will come to your aid.
BASIL KING We will do our homework and we will do it top notch. We would like to show Israel and the internatio...
BASIL JABER He sort of put a wet towel over the fire but he's really not giving into anything.
BASIL FERNANDO He made one huge mistake in the arrest of those human rights activists.
BASIL FERNANDO This is a decade-old pattern: assurances by the government right before donor meetings, followed by ...
BASIL FERNANDO She has nurtured it from the very early stages and is the energy behind its success.
BETH BASIL Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.
ST. BASIL Be bold—and mighty forces will come to your aid.
BASIL KING I could have done with some strong whiskey but all I got was dry sherry. It was but the first of man...
BASIL SPENCE Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
ST. BASIL Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which...
SAINT For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.
SAINT BASIL (BISHOP OF CAESAREA) ("THE GREAT") What we need is to use what we have.
BASIL S. WALSH We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we h...
BASIL S. WALSH If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?
BASIL S. WALSH An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows w...
BASIL S. WALSH We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.
BASIL W. MATURIN Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim...
BASIL THE GREAT When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one...
BASIL THE GREAT The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his...
BASIL C. HUME True love makes the imperfect to perfect .... otherwise love is not true.....
BASIL C S We can fight with our destiny ...but one day you should be ready to admit it , surrender to it ........
BASIL C S The Destiny of a good man is to live for self actualization
BASIL C S If Love is not powerful , what else is .......!!!
BASIL C S through crucifixion only the resurrection is possible
BASIL C S Age is not the count of wisdom
BASIL C S Are you ready for the rapture of the church
Are you ready for Heaven
Our Lord Jesus Christ...
DORIS IJEOMA BASIL Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be...
SAINT IGNATIUS I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
SAINT IGNATIUS Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,...
SAINT IGNATIUS The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagati...
SAINT IGNATIUS We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the ...
SAINT IGNATIUS We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar...
SAINT IGNATIUS It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ...
SAINT IGNATIUS Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w...
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.
SAINT IGNATIUS In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju...
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.
SAINT BERNARD For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ...
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...
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 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