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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram)

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

The argument is at an end.

I was in love with loving.

Hear the other side.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

I was in love with loving.

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Our children are here to stay, but our babies and toddlers and preschoolers are gone as fast as they can grow up-and we have only a short moment with each. When you see a grandfather take a baby in his arms, you see that the moment hasn't always been long enough.

There is no salvation outside the church.