truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 30 November 2006 7:15 am

Forgive, O Lord, all my transgressions,
My failing spirit in me renew,
Let me endure all tribulations
In hope and faith and love of You.

I.I. Koslov

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 30 November 2006 7:17 am

He who really keeps track of what he has done, will consider as lost every day during which he did not mourn, regardless of whatever good he may happen to have done.

St John Climacus

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 30 November 2006 1:37 pm

Do not look down upon your Orthodox brother, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 30 November 2006 1:38 pm

Food for the mind is like food for the body....the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

Marshall McLuhan

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 30 November 2006 1:40 pm

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

GK Chesterton

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 30 November 2006 1:42 pm

Knowing is not understanding.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Chas F. Kettering

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 30 November 2006 1:43 pm

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

St Ambrose