Dorotheus Quotes

#1. Dorotheus writes: Don't look for the affection of your neighbor. He who looks for it is troubled when he does not get it. You yourself, however, have to give witness to the love for your neighbor and to offer him rest, and thus you will bring your neighbor to love.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#2. Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains the Abbot Dorotheus. His will has coincided with God's will, and whatever he asks, he will receive.

Tito Colliander

#3. A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.

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#4. There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Anthony Trollope

#5. The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.

J. Gresham Machen

#6. Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.

Ramsey Clark

#7. Speake not of a dead man at the table.

George Herbert

#8. A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

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#9. When you are enthusiastic and optimistic with faith, nothing will be impossible for you to achieve.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Remy De Gourmont

#11. ... don't ever apologize for being who you are. Be gay and be proud.

Amy Kaufman Burk

#12. Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.

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#13. A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

Igor Stravinsky

#14. My body kills me, so I kill it.

Dorotheus The Theban

#15. In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.

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#16. Oh, Brethren, what is the result of pride? Oh, see what humility can do? What was the need for all these sufferings? For, if from the beginning Man had humbled himself, obeyed God, and kept the commandment he would not have fallen.

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#17. See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. Why did you act in this way, you pitiable ones? Make a bow of repentance, recognize your fault, be sorry for your nakedness. Neither one of them could blame himself, neither of them had the least bit of humility.

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