No man is competent to manage another.
How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria
Learning is by nature curiosity. . . prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin?
It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [. . . ] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time.
We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.
When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and. . . want to give up or try to work something out on our own.