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 | "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily
occupation ? speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as
indeed you ought to be." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing
among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in
speaking with composure." | |
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Found in the topic Taste.
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| "The more you say, the less people remember." | |
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Found in the topic Breeding.
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| "It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love
to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of
spirit.... No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our
behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is
there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we
shrink from the smallest?" | |
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Found in the topic God.
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| "There is a great difference between a lofty spirit and a right
spirit. A lofty spirit excites admiration by its profoundness; but only a
right spirit achieves salvation and happiness by its stability and
integrity. Do not conform your ideas to those of the world. Scorn the
"intellectual" as much as the world esteems it. What men consider
intellectual is a certain facility to produce brilliant thoughts. Nothing
is more vain. We make an idol of our intellect as a woman who believes
herself beautiful worships her face. We take pride in our own thoughts. We
must reject not only human cleverness, but also human prudence, which seems
so important and so profitable. Then we may enter ? like little children,
with candor and innocence of worldly ways ? into the simplicity of faith;
and with humility and a horror of sin we may enter into the holy passion
of the cross." | |
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Found in the topic Spirit.
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