He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man.
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. Th...
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou corre...
Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity
Behold, now, how foolish it is, in so great an abundance of the truest opinions which can be extracted from these words, rashly to affirm which of them Moses particularly meant; and with pernicious co...
So too let him rejoice and delight in finding you who are beyond discovery rather than fail to find you by supposing you to be discoverable.
Though good and bad men suffer alike, we must not suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves, because there is no difference in what they both suffer. For even in the likeness of t...
He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things.
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.
I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.
To what place can I invite you, then, since I am in you? Or where could you come from, in order to come into me? To what place outside heaven and earth could I travel, so that my God could come to me...
Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.
For in our hope we are saved.
What did it profit that I read the greatest human ideas of the so-called liberal arts in the books I got hold of. My thinking was enslaved to corrupt desires, so what difference did it make that I cou...
For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found...
The earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.
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