“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels”
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“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels”
“Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men”
“However many blessings we expect from God, his infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts”
“It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results”
“You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy”
“All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common good”
“There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God”
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul”
“Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments”
“If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us”
“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ”
“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray”
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice”
“Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols”
“There is no worse screen to block out the spirit than confidence in our own intelligence”
“Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost his authority”
“In our good works nothing is our own”