truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 2 February 2007 7:57 am

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Samuel Butler

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 2 February 2007 7:57 am

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Samuel Butler

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 2 February 2007 7:59 am

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler [/i]

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 2 February 2007 8:00 am

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 2 February 2007 8:01 am

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Samuel Butler

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 2 February 2007 8:03 am

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Samuel Butler

Conscience in men is nothing else but the voice of the omnipresent God moving in the hearts of men, as He Who alone Is and has created everything, the Lord knows all as Himself - all the thoughts, desires, intentions, words, and works of men, present, past, and future. However far in front I may let my thoughts, my imagination, run He is there before me and I ever inevitably finish my course in Him, ever having Him as the witness of my ways. 'His eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men' (Jer 32:19). 'Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit, or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?' (Ps 139:7).
St. John of Kronstadt (My Life in Christ, Part 1; Holy Trinity Monastery pg. 80)

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 2 February 2007 8:19 am

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel Butler