Sayings

The sentences people remember, checked against the book: 41 sayings.

• “Lay this body anywhere, let not the care for it trouble you at all. This only I ask…”
• “When I visit Rome, I fast on Saturday; when I am here, I do not fast. On the same…”
• “just as, if one's body were made of adamant, no iron, nor anything else, would have…”
• “The soul of a Bishop is for all the world like a vessel in a storm: lashed from every…”
• “Let us then not consider how to leave our children rich, but how to leave them virtuous.”
• “For He is not so well pleased with being called Master, as Father, nor with having a…”
• “I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that…”
• “For nothing is more frigid than a teacher who shows his philosophy only in words: this…”
• “For wherever the Holy Spirit is present, He makes men of gold out of men of clay.”
• “Thou dost not so much desire thy sins to be forgiven, as He desires to forgive thee thy…”
• “Since then we know this, let us practise humble-mindedness. For there is nothing so…”
• “Such are God's ways of ordering: the very things by which we are hurt, by these same are…”
• “It is a great evil to be ignorant of the Scriptures: from the things we ought to get…”
• “Oh! how great is the devotion (philosophia) of this woman, that she should be even…”
• “Believe me, not fire so effectual to burn off rust, as night prayer to remove the rust…”
• “Not so you: none takes the Bible in hand: nay, everything rather than the Bible.”
• “Since a man is more dignified than a Church: for it was not for walls that Christ died…”
• “Not what we say, but what we do, is what all men look to.”
• “Just as the night-time prayer of Paul and Silas opened the gates of the prison, so the…”
• “Let us think over that night, the stocks, and the hymns of praise. This let us also do…”
• “Those are rulers, who bear rule over themselves.”
• “The Apostles were scourged, and they rejoiced: were bound, and they gave thanks: were…”
• “For it is not possible, I say not possible, ever to exhaust the mind of the Scriptures…”
• “Nothing so becomes a Church as silence and good order.”
• “For we ought to smart not when we are punished, but when we sin.”
• “Thus too they that furnish a life to be wondered at, even though they hold their peace…”
• “And not in fine public monuments, nor yet somewhere out of sight, did He deposit His…”
• “Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.”
• “I, miserable young man, supremely miserable even in the very outset of my youth, had…”
• “You are of opinion that no one should be compelled to follow righteousness; and yet you…”
• “Lord, make me chaste, but not yet.”
• “What I have now said in regard to abstaining from wanton looks should be carefully…”
• “Love the sinner, but hate the sin.”
• “It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own error—not that for which…”
• “Thou wert more inward to me than my most inward part; and higher than my highest.”
• “Peace should be the object of your desire; war should be waged only as a necessity, and…”
• “Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our…”
• “As severity is ready to punish the faults which it may discover, so charity is reluctant…”
• “I heard the voice as of a boy or girl, I know not which, coming from a neighbouring…”
• “Too late did I love Thee, O Fairness, so ancient, and yet so new! Too late did I love…”
• “What, then, is time? If no one ask of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks…”