Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
From Saint Augustine
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
8 perspectives
7 perspectives
6 perspectives
5 perspectives
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives