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- There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
- Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
- No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which…
- Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there…
- God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom…
- We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish…
- The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise…
- But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which…
- Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate…
- It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
- Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious…
- The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not…
- If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is…
- For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is…
- Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had…
- Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defense, I cannot venture certainly to affirm; not one angel only has…
- Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.
- If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, but will be crowned.
- To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him,…
- When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
- The Gospel acts without threats... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us.
- There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which…
- It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the…
- Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation…
- How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong