truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 14 December 2006 8:56 am

Some people act as though God were under an obligation to bestow even on the unworthy His intended gift. They turn His liberality into slavery.... For do not many afterwards fall out of grace? Is not this gift taken away from many?

Tertullian On Repentance chap. 6. (not a Holy Father)

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 14 December 2006 8:57 am

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 14 December 2006 9:00 am

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

George Bernard Shaw

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 14 December 2006 9:01 am

...illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue..."

St. Simeon the New Theologian (On Faith, Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart; Faber and Faber pg.148):

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 14 December 2006 3:53 pm

"The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly."

-- St John of the Cross

Frelias · Post by **Frelias** » Thu 14 December 2006 8:51 pm

America has become a nation of people who worship their work, who work at their play and play at their worship.

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 15 December 2006 9:33 am

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe