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The strong must come lest they become weak; and the weak that they may become strong. The sick must come to be cured; the healthful to be preserved.
Holy Living (1650)
My children are not so much mine as they are God’s.
Holy Living (1650)
The Authority of a Council is not greater then the Authority of the Apostles, nor their dictates more sacred or authentic.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
Love is as communicative as fire, as busy and as active...
Holy Living (1650)
He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the gates of the grave shall never prevail upon him to do him mischief.
A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longest to be retained, and indeed never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen.
Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves and carry with it all that is ours.
Holy Living (1650)
Nature and religion are the bands of friendship, excellence and usefulness are its great endearments.
Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.
The stars shall be rent into threds of light,
And scatter'd like the beards of comets.
Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
All that a sick and dying man can do, is but to exercise those virtues which he before acquired, and to perfect that repentance, which was begun more early.
Holy Dying (1651)
For spiritual blessings, let our prayers be importunate, perpetual, and persevering; for temporal blessings, let them be general, short, conditional, and modest.
In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.
All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.
Life of Christ (1649)
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine!
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book."
No sin is small. It is a sin against an infinite God, and may have consequences immeasurable. No grain of sand is small in the mechanism of a watch.
Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.