This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We pulled for you when the wind was against us and the sails were low. Will you never let us go?
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We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart; But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: It's clever, but is it Art?
Conservatives sense that modern people are dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, able to see farther than their ancestors only because of the great stature of those who have preceded us in time.
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Saint Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon, born Fernando Martins de Bulhões NULL
The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
Let us all love the Lord God with all [our] heart, all [our] soul, with all [our] mind and all [our] strength and with fortitude and with total understanding, with all of our powers, with every effort, every affection, every emotion, every desire, and every wish. He has given and gives to each one of us [our] whole body, [our] whole soul, and [our] whole life. He created us and redeemed us, and will save us by His mercy alone. He did and does every good thing for us [who are] miserable and wretched, rotten and foul-smelling, ungrateful and evil.
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Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
By occasions the strong become weak. To converse too frequently with women, and not suffer by it, is as hard as to take fire into one's bosom, and not to be burnt. What has a religious man to do with women, unless it be when he hears their confession, or gives them necessary spiritual instructions? He that thinks himself secure, is undone; the devil finding [something] to take hold on, though it be but a hair, raises a dreadful war.
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
Should there be a brother anywhere in the world who has sinned, no matter how great soever his fault may be, let him not go away after he has once seen thy face without showing pity towards him; and if he seek not mercy, ask him if he does not desire it. And by this I will know if you love God and me.
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Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
The rule and life of these brothers is this: to live in obedience, in chastity, and without anything of their own, and to follow the teaching and the footprints of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who says: 'If you wish to be perfect go and sell everything you have and give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.' And, 'If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me'. Again, 'If anyone wishes to come to me and does not hate father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple' (Lk. 14:26). And: 'Everyone who has left father or mother, brothers or sisters, wife or children, houses or lands because of me, shall receive a hundredfold and shall possess eternal life' (cf. Mt. 19:29, Mk. 10:29, Lk. 18:30)
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
Each one should confidently make known his need to the other, so that he might find what he needs and minister to him. And each one should love and care for his brother in all those things in which God will give him grace, as a mother loves and cares for her son.
Saint Jerome, aka Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymous, Hierom or Jerom NULL
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
Saint Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon, born Fernando Martins de Bulhões NULL
The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.