Great Throughts Treasury

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Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Qatar and Isaac Syrus NULL

That which befalls a fish out of water, befalls the mind that has come out of the remembrance of God and wanders in the remembrance of the world.

Honor | Man | Men | Order | Will | Wise |

Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Qatar and Isaac Syrus NULL

The man who endures accusations against himself with humility has arrived at perfection. He is marveled at by the holy angels, for there is no other virtue so great and so hard to achieve.

Design | God | Honor | Love | Man | Vengeance | Witness | God |

Saint Paul, aka The Apostle Paul, Paul the Apostle or Saul of Tarsus NULL

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Body | God | Honor | Man | God |

Saint Teresa of Ávila, aka Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada NULL

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with Him continually, and you will not sin, will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

Care | Honor | Listening | Praise |

Saint Teresa of Ávila, aka Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada NULL

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us.

Devil | Fear | Grace | Harm | Honor | Lord | Mistake | Peace | People | Satan | Trouble | Afraid | Blessed | Understand |

John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom

Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.

Father | Forethought | Honor | Purpose | Purpose | Regard | Will | Child |

Saint Thomas Aquinas, aka Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis or Doctor Universalis

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Honor | Men | Nothing | Receive | Reward | Happiness |

John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom

This is the cause of all evils, the not knowing the Scriptures. We go into battle without arms, and how are we to come off safe?

Fear | God | Heaven | Honor | Reverence | Silence | God | Think |

Saint Vincent de Paul

If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The question is, however, whether, because of this danger, you should refuse to practice such a beautiful virtue as charity.

God | Good | Honor | God |

Saint Vincent de Paul

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

God | Heart | Honor | Peace | Will | God |

Sallust, full name Carus Valerius Sailustius Crispus NULL

By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

Honor |

Saint Vincent de Paul

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.

Grace | Honor |

Saint Vincent de Paul

I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.

Esteem | Honor | Little | Love | Nothing | Will | Work |

Samuel Adams

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

Bible | Capacity | Honor | Man | Bible |

Sam Keen

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

Cost | Dignity | Honor | People | Question | Right | Sense | Society | Wrong | Society |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Honor | Man | Mind | Virtue | Virtue |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Battle | Death | Diligence | Honor | Life | Life | Man | Nature | Will |

Simeon ben Azai, sometimes Ben Azai

Whoever does not engage in reproductive sexual relations, lo, such a one sheds blood and diminishes the divine image, since it says, For in the image of God he made man. And it says, And you be fruitful and multiply (Gen 9:67)

Honor |

Simon Wiesenthal

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

Honor | Man |

Simón Bolívar, fully Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco

If my death contributes to the ceasing of the parties and to the consolidation of the union,

God | Honor | Rest | Soul | Will | God |