truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 2:39 pm

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 2:41 pm

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 2:50 pm

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 2:51 pm

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 9 January 2007 2:53 pm

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 10 January 2007 7:33 am

The grace of God doesn't depend on one's years, but on the way he struggles and on the mercy of the Lord. Experience through praxis is obtained with the years; but grace - and that is why it is called grace, in other words, a gift - depends on God and is given in proportion to the fervency of faith, humility, and good intentions.

Elder Joseph the Hesychast.

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 10 January 2007 7:34 am

But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God.
Psalms 73:28