Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Francis of Assisi
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
C. S. Lewis
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Saint Augustine
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates