truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:07 am

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:08 am

A man cannot acquire hope in God unless he first does His will with exactness. For hope in God and manliness of heart are born of the testimony of the conscience, and by the truthful testimony of the mind we possess confidence in God. The testimony of the mind consists in the fact that a man's conscience does not accuse him of negligence in anything within his power that it is his duty to do.
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian.

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:11 am

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:12 am

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:13 am

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:14 am

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 17 January 2007 8:15 am

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle