truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 12 February 2007 8:39 am

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
Victor Hugo

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 12 February 2007 8:39 am

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 12 February 2007 8:42 am

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 12 February 2007 8:43 am

To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 12 February 2007 11:27 am

Hunting truth is no easy task; we must look everywhere for its tracks. Learning truth is like learning a trade; apprentices grow in experience little by little, provided they do not despise any opportunity to increase their knowledge.
St Basil the Great

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 12 February 2007 11:48 am

Through humility we find the possibility of repentance; through repentance the acceptance of the need for judgement; through judgement the awakening of salvation in forgiveness.
Fr Daniel

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 12 February 2007 11:53 am

Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31