truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 1 December 2006 3:22 pm

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Chas F. Kettering

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 5 December 2006 10:26 am

"Let us first consider what peace is. Surely it is nothing else but a loving disposition towards one's neighbor. But what is held to be the opposite of love? It is hate and wrath, anger and envy, harboring resentment as well as hypocrisy and the calamity of war. Do you see for how many different diseases this single word is an antidote? For peace is equally opposed to every one of the things mentioned, and wipes out these evils by its own presence. Just as illness vanishes when health supervenes, and as no darkness is left when light begins to shine, so also when peace appears, all the passions connected with its opposite are eliminated."

St. Gregory of Nyssa.

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 5 December 2006 10:27 am

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

William Ames

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 5 December 2006 10:28 am

Believe in yourself!
Have faith in your abilities!

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 5 December 2006 10:28 am

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 5 December 2006 10:29 am

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Norman Vincent Peale

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 5 December 2006 10:30 am

Have great care of your children. We live at a time when much freedom is given to the expression of thought, but little care is taken that thoughts should be founded on truth. Teach them to love truth.

Elder Macarius of Optina