Theologian Quotes

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.
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