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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
He who plants kindness gathers love.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.
Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.
To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.
The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.
We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.
Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator.
Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life.
It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.
He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.
Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.
If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.
We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.
If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.
Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.
When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.
What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.
The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.
The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.
I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.
When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.
A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.
