I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates
For it is in giving that we receive.
Francis of Assisi
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Saint Augustine
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Francis of Assisi
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
Francis of Assisi