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Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
Wherever there are three persons, even though they are laymen, there is the church. Every man lives by his own faith, and God does not distinguish between classes. Since, in cases of necessity, you have the right to act as a priest, then you must also accept priestly discipline. It is God's will that all of us should be in the right spiritual state, at any time or place, to administer His sacraments.
Affliction | God | Gold | Good | Man | Men | Virtue | Virtue | God | Vice |
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
There is one case of death-bed repentance recorded, that of the penitent thief, that none should despair; and only one that none should presume.
Saint John of Kronstadt, fully John Il’ich Serguiev, aka Holy Father John of the Kronstadt NULL
Oh, what great happiness and bliss, what exaltation it is to address oneself to the Eternal Father. Always, without fail, value this joy which has been accorded to you by God's infinite grace and do not forget it during your prayers; God, the angels and God's holy men listen to you.
Anger | Danger | Enough | Evil | God | Love | Man | Danger | God | Vice |
Sallust, full name Carus Valerius Sailustius Crispus NULL
Every man is the architect of his own future [fortune].
The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.
It is the manner of gods and prophets to begin: "Thou shalt have none other God or Prophet but me." If I were to start as a God or a prophet I think I should take the line: "Thou shalt not believe in me. Thou shalt not have me for a God. Thou shalt worship any d_____d thing thou likest except me." This should be my first and great commandment, and my second should be like unto it.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really f ree in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
A person who feels pleasure in producing pain in someone else in a sexual relationship is also capable of enjoying as pleasure any pain which he may himself derive from sexual relations. A sadist is always at the same time a masochist.
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Look at Sir Charles's death! That was bad enough, for all that the coroner said. Look at the noises on the moor at night. There's not a man would cross it after sundown if he was paid for it. Look at this stranger hiding out yonder, and watching and waiting! What's he waiting for? What does it mean? It means no good to anyone of the name of Baskerville.
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis, with which he unraveled the problems which were submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes, and was ready in a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in the window, rose as we entered.
Cyprian, aka Saint Cyprian of Carthage, fully Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus NULL
The world is going mad in mutual bloodshed. And murder, which is considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse. The offenders acquire impunity by increasing their ravaging.
Ignatius Loyola, aka Saint Ignatius of Loyola
O my God, teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as I should, to give without counting the cost, to fight without fear of being wounded, to work without seeking rest, to labor without expecting any reward, but the knowledge that I am doing your most holy will.
Stanislaw Lec, fully Stanisław Jerzy Lec, born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.