truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:26 am

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:27 am

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:28 am

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:32 am

The forgetting of wrongs is a sign of true repentance. But he who dwells on them and thinks that he is repenting is like a man who thinks he is running while he is really asleep.
St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent.

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:32 am

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:34 am

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:36 am

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. Silence is more eloquent than words. Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle