Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow.
Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.
The United Nations is useless. . . and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.
Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.
State is the nation socially organized.
Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.
In politics, what appears is.
Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;. . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
I didn't know why I was coming to this room. Someone just told me to go to Sam Raimi's office. I knew that I uniquely had the comics version of his job, which was to take Spider-Man and put him into the modern day. But I thought, "Maybe he wants to tell me to cut it out. " So I come in, it's in his office, and then Stan Lee comes in, and I'd only ever met Stan as a fan, not as a professional. And then they sit us down on a couch, and roll in an AV cart with a TV on it and go, "We're going to show you the first cut of Spider-Man. "
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.