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A good conscience is the palace of Christ; the temple of the Holy Ghost; the paradise of delight; the standing Sabbath of the saints. - [Conscience] A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart. - [Eyes] All our life goeth like Penelope's web,--what one hour effects the next destroys. - [Mutability] As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it. - [God] Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first or second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. - [Associates : Company] Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. - [Blessedness] Custom is second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.] - [Custom : Proverbs] Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath hath not himself; which whosoever doth commit doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin. - [Drunkenness] Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. - [Faith] Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - [Chastity] God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and, understanding of his adversity, he would be senseless. - [Future] Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. - [Habit] He that is not jealous is not in love. - [Jealousy] He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.] - attributed to [Labor] Humble wedlock is far better than proud virginity. - [Matrimony] I read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. - [Christ] I sought Thee at a distance, and did not know that Thou wast near. I sought Thee abroad, and behold, Thou wast within me. - [God] In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. - [Duty] It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. - [Love] Poverty is the load of some, and wealth is the load of others, perhaps the greater load of the two. It may weigh them to perdition. Bear the load of thy neighbor's poverty, and let him bear with thee the load of thy wealth. Thou lightenest thy load by lightening his. - [Benevolence] Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. - [Proverbs] The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? - [Honor] The moral conscience is a truly primitive faculty; it is a particular manner of feeling which corresponds to the goodness of moral actions, as taste is a manner of feeling which corresponds to beauty. Love men, immolate error. - [Conscience] The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. - [Fools] The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. - [Humility] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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