Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. Topics: Humility |
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Topics: Humility |
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. Topics: Humility |
The only shame is to have none. Topics: Humility |
Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair. Topics: Humility |
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Topics: Humorous |
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. Topics: Hypocrisy |
There is nothing so abominable in the eyes of God and of men as idolatry, whereby men render to the creature that honor which is due only to the Creator Topics: Idolatry |
Men blaspheme what they do not know. Topics: Ignorance, Men |
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. Topics: Inspiration |
Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ. Topics: Jesus |
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. Topics: Justice, Power |