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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever


St. Thomas Aquinas

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ST. JEROME True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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ST. JEROME Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME Haste is of the Devil.
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ST. SIMON Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROME Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE Prayer is a groan.
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ST. BASIL Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
ST. BASIL Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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ST. BERNARD When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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ST. BASIL I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
ST. BERNARD Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of nec...
ST. BASIL The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
ST. BERNARD Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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ST. JEROME Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust.
ST. AUGUSTINE The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
ST. AUGUSTINE Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
ST. BASIL God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p...
ST. AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ST. JEROME Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously ...
ST. VINCENT A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o...
ST. JEROME I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everyt...
ST. VINCENT I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f...
ST. JEROME A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almos...
ST. VINCENT My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr...
ST. JEROME Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something...
ST. VINCENT I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.
ST. LUCIA Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.
ST. AUGUSTINE The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob...
ST. AUGUSTINE