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.