Philosopher Quotes

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.