99 Quotes by English Proverbs

The Psalms are the voices of the church.

The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.

The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of baptism . . . "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God"

In some causes silence is dangerous.

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.

Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by its own inner feelings. It needs no popular opinions as its reward in any way; nor has it any fear of punishments. Thus the less it strives for glory, the more it rises above it. For to those who seek for glory, that reward in the shape of present things is but a shadow of future ones, and is a hindrance to eternal life, as it is written in the Scriptures: 'Truly I say to you, they have received their reward'