29 quotes found
“Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How ca...”
“Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which do...”
“He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an ...”
“God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.”
“Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.”
“At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.”
“It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.”
“Not every affection which seems good is to be immediately followed. Neither is every opposite affection to be immediately avoided. Sometimes it is expedient to use restraint even in good desires an...”
“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”
