(102 quotes found)
“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
Saint Augustine
“He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.”
“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
“Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman”
“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
“You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.”
“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
“The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell”
“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.”
