truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 2 January 2007 11:26 am

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 2 January 2007 11:26 am

According to the text, `We are the body of Christ and each of us is one of its members' (cf. 1 Cor. 12:27), we are said to be the body of Christ. We do not become this body through the loss of our own bodies; nor again because Christ's Body passes into us hypostatically or is divided into members; but rather because we conform to the likeness of the Lord's flesh by shaking off the corruption of sin. For just as Christ in His manhood was sinless by nature both in flesh and in soul, so we too who believe in Him, and have clothed ourselves in Him through the Spirit, can be without sin to Him if we so choose.

St. Maximus the Confessor, Second Century on Theology, Philokalia, V. 2

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 3 January 2007 7:56 am

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 3 January 2007 7:57 am

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 3 January 2007 7:59 am

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 3 January 2007 8:00 am

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
Tacitus

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 3 January 2007 8:01 am

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus