This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
One is one's own master on one's own stove. (An Englishman can do as he likes in his own home and nobody may enter it without his permissions)
Sacha Guitry, fully Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry
The better I know men ... the more I like dogs!
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
How, thro' her tears, with pale and trembling radiance, the eye of beauty shines, and lights her sorrows! As rises o'er the storm some silver star, the seaman's hope, and promise of his safety.
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Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
Why, being dead, do you rely on yourself? You were able to die of your own accord; you cannot come back to life of your own accord. We were able to sin by ourselves, and we are still able to, nor shall we ever not be able to. Let our hope be in nothing but in God. Let us send up our sighs to him; as for ourselves, let us strive with our wills to earn merit by our prayers.
We trust and believe in what we love.
Corruption | Cruelty | Peace | Will | Cruelty |
Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Qatar and Isaac Syrus NULL
As children are not born without a mother, so passions are not born without distraction of the mind, and sin is not committed without parley with the passions.
Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Qatar and Isaac Syrus NULL
A small but always persistent discipline is a great force; for a soft drop falling persistently, hollows out hard rock.
Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Qatar and Isaac Syrus NULL
Just as fish perish from lack of water, so the meditative movements that God causes to blossom forth vanish from the heart of the monk who loves to dwell and pass his life in company with worldly men.
Saint Maximus the Confessor NULL
A sure warrant for looking forward with hope to deification of human nature is provided by the incarnation of God, which makes man god to the same degree as God Himself became man. For it is clear that He who became man without sin (cf. Heb. 4:15) will divinize human nature without changing it into the divine nature, and will raise it up for His own sake to the same degree as He lowered Himself for man's sake. This is what St. Paul teaches mystically when he says, '…that in the ages to come He might display the overflowing richness of His grace' (Eph. 2:7).
Control | Endurance | God | Grace | Judgment | Principles | Providence | God | Intellect |
One of my brothers was nearly of my own age; and he it was whom I most loved, though I was very fond of them all, and they of me. He and I used to read Lives of Saints together. When I read of martyrdom undergone by the Saints for the love of God, it struck me that the vision of God was very cheaply purchased; and I had a great desire to die a martyr's death, — not out of any love of Him of which I was conscious, but that I might most quickly attain to the fruition of those great joys of which I read that they were reserved in Heaven; and I used to discuss with my brother how we could become martyrs. We settled to go together to the country of the Moors, begging our way for the love of God, that we might be there beheaded; and our Lord, I believe, had given us courage enough, even at so tender an age, if we could have found the means to proceed; but our greatest difficulty seemed to be our father and mother.
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honored us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.
Enjoyment | Eternal | God | Grace | Knowledge | Life | Life | Promise | Salvation | Time | World | Worship | God |
The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of The United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Surely the glory of finally getting rid of and burying a long and troublesome matter should be as great as that of making an important discovery. The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.
Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
It is a fact that trade unionism in America moves on its own set and deliberate way. In so doing, it has outlived wave upon wave of hastily conceived so-called broad movements that were to reconstruct society in a single season. And it has sufficiently good cause for continuing its own reasoned-out course.
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.
Beauty | Crime | Isolation | Law | Opinion | Present | Public | Reason | Sin | Thought | Beauty | Thought |