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"For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die."
"He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it."
"No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor."
"Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity."
"For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows."
"It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer."
"I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light."
"Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled."
"Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking."
"The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God."
"It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam."
"The verdict of the world is conclusive."
"One loving heart sets another on fire."
"Whoever possesses God is happy."
"If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established."
"There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn."
"We judge all things according to the divine truth."
"If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?"
"There is no possible source of evil except good."
"My weight is my love."